I didn’t realise my mum had used vinegar to descale our kettle too. All I knew was “something smells of vinegar here” and that “oh, good, there’s hot water already in the kettle!”

I used that hot water to make up a formula bottle for my then 3 month old. Thankfully, I always do a double temperature test - drop on the wrist and then a drop on the tongue.

Thanks to that I figured out what the vinegar smell was… and didn’t subject poor baby to drinking vinegar milk.

One of my absolute favourite books is Cinnamon and Gunpowder which reads like those cooking blogs where you have to scroll through someone’s life story to get the recipe… BUT SET ON A PIRATE SHIP IN 1819.