Czech-born Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines uses her remoska, a traditional Czech cooking pot, to prepare meals in her Preston kitchen. The remoska works a bit like an electric oven and consists of a bowl in a stainless steel stand, with a lid that has a wire attached to it and an on-off switch.

Lunch cooked in a remoska

Lady Grenfell-Baines says, "You can do cakes, scones, crumbles, you can layer potatoes, onions, bits of bacon and any other vegetables. Get them cooking, then put a couple of lamb chops over the top, go and have a gin and tonic or hoover your room, or whatever, come back and there it is, cooked!"

"Everybody's grandmother used this back in the old Czech Republic where it came from. It was invented in the early fifties and in those days because people had tiny kitchens, space was short and this was an ideal piece of equipment to use."

"On the whole, recipes for Czech food aren't that different. We possibly use cabbage more, pork more than lamb. They certainly don't have the variety of puddings that we have here. During the week they wouldn't even have a pudding or a dessert, that's probably kept for a Sunday."

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