Seems she was far more comfortable drawing animals than people. Miss Potter loved sketching her pet hedgehog, but struggled with depicting Lucie. Only the ceiling was so low that Lucie’s head nearly touched it and the pots and pans were small, and so was everything there.” “Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill? - a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams - just like any other farm kitchen. It was while searching for her lost “pocket-handkins” that Lucie stumbled upon Mrs. Because Lucie once left her gloves behind after tea, Miss Potter decided to have the Lucie in her story be in the habit of losing her handkerchiefs. Lucie is based on a child friend named Lucie Carr, daughter of the Newlands Church Vicar.

She proudly reported that she was modeled after Miss Potter’s pet hedgehog and the Potter family’s Scottish washerwoman Kitty McDonald. Over tea, she shared a few tidbits about her book. Tiggy-Winkle remains modest and sweet, not the least bit prickly, and Cornelius, in particular, was totally taken with her little black nose that went “sniffle, sniffle, snuffle” and her eyes that went “twinkle, twinkle.” Tiggy-Winkle was ecstatic when she saw the cookies because it reminded her of home and the time she had tea with Lucie, the little girl who wandered into her cottage kitchen one day while she was busy ironing.Įven though she’s now an international celebrity thanks to Miss Potter’s book about her, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds and all through her gown and her cap, there were hair-pins sticking wrong end out so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.” We found the cookie recipe in Peter Rabbit’s Natural Foods Cookbook, and since we’d made Fierce Bad Rabbit’s Carrot-Raisin Salad from that book many times before, we thought the cookies would also be a good bet. Every Easter we get into a “Peter Rabbit mood” and crave carrots. Coincidentally, Cornelius and I had just baked a fresh batch of Littletown-Farm Carrot Cookies. We couldn’t very well turn her out in a snowstorm, so we invited her in for tea. Tiggy-Winkle chanced by to deliver a freshly laundered stack of tea towels and table linens. The other day, when untimely Spring (?) snowflakes were drifting down from the sky, Mrs. Do you know her too? A tidier, more conscientious “clear-starcher” you’d be hard pressed to find. Tiggy-Winkle and she hails from the Lake District. Just in case you were wondering, the reason we usually look so spiffy around here is because we have the best washerwoman.

Mrs tiggy winkle