One set is working class - tenant farmers or farm workers the generation before them, moved to town and worked in shoe factories (grandad) and shops (nan) themselves. The other set is almost but not quite upper middle - banking middle manager and doctors secretary and a north London suburb.
Baking was more pie focused with the first, and cake focused with the latter. And my aunt from the former set of grandparents is the best cake person in the family - in fact both her and her sister to masses of cake and flower arranging - which I guess might be considered part of their tradition across class boundaries? Not sure really.
My mother - child of the middle class side actually really doesn't like baking very much - although she can do it perfectly well - so I think its very much a personality thing as well as a class and generation thing
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One set is working class - tenant farmers or farm workers the generation before them, moved to town and worked in shoe factories (grandad) and shops (nan) themselves.
The other set is almost but not quite upper middle - banking middle manager and doctors secretary and a north London suburb.
Baking was more pie focused with the first, and cake focused with the latter. And my aunt from the former set of grandparents is the best cake person in the family - in fact both her and her sister to masses of cake and flower arranging - which I guess might be considered part of their tradition across class boundaries? Not sure really.
My mother - child of the middle class side actually really doesn't like baking very much - although she can do it perfectly well - so I think its very much a personality thing as well as a class and generation thing