After yesterday's post about my unidentified Royal Grafton Red china service, a reader asked if I could take a photo of the underside to help her work out the name of the design.
So here it is; the underside of one of the teacups.
I'm afraid it's probably not much help!
As I write this I feel like the Goodyear blimp. We had the most enormous lunch today with friends from church.
As they have five kids and we have four, and some of their family is vegetarian, I decided to get everyone to make their own pizzas. There were ham and pepperoni, sliced red peppers, semi-dried tomatoes, sliced canned artichokes, baby spinach leaves and olives, along with plenty of grated mozzarella, of course. I also made a big, garlicky couscous salad with chickpeas and other vegies for a side dish.
Dessert was a mixed berry crumble, my home-made chocolate brownies, cream and vanilla ice cream.
Our friends brought the most delicious, oozy camembert cheese from the Adelaide Central Market, and I have eaten w-a-y too much of it.
You know Sunday lunch is going well when everyone is still sitting around chatting at 4 pm!
4 comments:
Can't help with the china sorry...but the lunch sounds devine. I was wondering if you would share your coucous salad recipe please.
cheers Kate
It's not as much help as I had hoped, but I can tell you now that your china was made between 1950 and 1957. Is it possible that the flowers (wheat?) on the rims were hand painted afterward? Good luck!
Kate, I'll share the recipe tomorrow.
Striving Simply, the dates you suggest make sense as my husband's parents were married in the late 1950s and were given the Royal Grafton service for a wedding present. I don't think the flowers were painted after; they don't look hand-painted.
Love the new look of your blog, Kate!
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