Well, it’s that time of year again, Christmas is 6 months off and Salford Angels are planning our second calendar.

Last year the calendar was a great success and featured 12 different cake recipes with some fantastic pictures of the cakes all submitted by members of the WI. So we had a pre-planning meeting to decide what we would do to top last years effort. After a bit of discussion we came up with this idea…

The WI was formed in Britain in 1915, and we thought it would be a nice tribute to all those ladies that have pioneered womens roles by recreating an iconic image from each decade and having a recipe typical to that era, sweet, savoury, cocktails, whatever was in vogue.

Sounds like a great idea and a lot of fun, but there’s going to be an awful lot of work involved, choosing the images and recipes, trialling the recipes to make sure they work, finding the costumes and locations for the photo shoot, getting everyone together for the photos, editing and printing and all with a deadline of the calendar being ready for sale on our stall at Salford Food Festival on 21st September! Phew!

The calendar committee will meet on the 4th July to decide on the images and recipes and then it’s full steam ahead. Not only is that keeping us busy, but Jean Bernard, organiser of the first Levenshulme Food and Drink Festival has been in touch and requested a member to judge the homemade cakes at the Patchwork Picnic at Greenbank Playing Fields, we thought long and hard about it (30 seconds at most), and Sam Smith volunteered. It’s a lousy job, but someone’s got to do it!