All around us the fields of oilseed rape are turning the landscape a bright acid yellow. We all know that the seed goes into rapeseed oil for cookery, and it's very good for you too, far better than beef dripping or lard and some of it even goes into cattle feed.
Right, brace yourselves for a little known fact and it's coming up right now.
Whilst talking to a farmer whose family has been working the land here since the 18th Century he told us that it was grown extensively in West Norfolk and the Fens in Victorian times and the oil was used almost exclusively by the railways for the lights on the back and front of the trains.
Trivial pursuit anyone?
Obviously the Victorians used beef dripping and lard for their full English Breakfast.
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