During the last four years I have been reluctant to write about ‘childhood recipes. Instead I have been on a ‘journey ‘of self reflection and insight into some of the foods I consumed from childhood. My mother was diabetic. I have a daunting childhood memory of her doctor telling my older sister and I ‘not to eat sweets otherwise we would get diabetes too’.  In retrospect we were scared into submission yet at the same time misinformed.