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• Alexis Soyer's Grouse Salad

  

  A brace of red grouse (gélinotte d'Ecosse)Both red and black grouse (the latter sometimes called black game or black cock) were extremely popular table birds... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Jubilee Food Revisited

  

  Mrs Marshall's Jubilee tea cakes garnishing an iced cabinet puddingLast week, I was preparing for my Victorian Cookery course. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Mr Borella's Clary Fritters

  

  Clary leaves after washing and dryingThroughout the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of authors produced books called The... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Some Early Bakewell Pudding Recipes

  

  The Castle Inn in Bakewell as it is todayA great deal has been written on the history of the celebrated Bakewell Pudding, much of it I am afraid rather... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Jubilee Cakes and Ale

  

  From Jubilee Cake by Alice Wellington Rollins in St Nicholas, Vol. 14, Part II, Scribner and Company, 1887. The illustration is by J. M. Nugent. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Samuel Pepy's Best Ever Dinner

  

  A portrait of Samuel Pepys you may not know. He is shown as one of the bearers of the King's canopy at James II's coronation in 1685. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Battenburg Cake History Again!

  

  Delving into the true history of our foods is always much more rewarding than blindly accepting the tired old clichés and myths that are often used to explain... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Food for Jubilees and Other Royal Occasions

  

  I used to think that the peg-footed creamware mould which I used to make this flummery honouring George III dated from the 1790s. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Lady Ann Fanshawe's Icy Cream

  

  on a 1660s blue dash charger - the original family brickIn the late seventies, I placed a successful bid on a mixed lot of books in an auction. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• To Broil a Unicorn

  

  A high status lady serves the unicorn's head to tableReaders of this blog may remember my recent posting on the fraudulent cookery manuscript in the Wellcome... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Charles Carter's 1730 Prunella and Tamarind Tort

  

  Charles Carter's Tamarind TortWhen I started collecting antiquarian cookery books as a teenage schoolboy nearly half a century ago, the third or fourth one I... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Hot Cross Buns and Grains of Paradise

  

  Grains of paradise flavoured hot cross buns together with a bun dockerJust before Christmas I was in St Alban's Cathedral recording an interview on twelfth cake... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2012 CULTURE, FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY