Jane Austen picnic course resources
Here is a booklet for the Jane Austen Picnic Experience course. Download the booklet (PDF)
How to make rout cakes for your rout
Gasp at bawdy and disorderly routs and discover the cakes that were served at them.
How to make an enchanting Jane Austen style picnic
Imagine picnic hampers filled with delicious food
Picnics and beer on Karen Morton’s Food and Drink Show
A brewery, a vineyard, a picnic and a recipe, first broadcast 20th June 2021
Hot Cross Bun course booklet and video links
Here is a booklet for the Hot Cross Buns course and a link to a 6 minute video that runs through all the steps in the recipe we’ll be making. Download the booklet (PDF) View the video
Greengage and Lime Sponge Pie
This recipes comes from Gary Rhodes – Around Britain. First published in 1996. Ingredients For the pie 175-225g sweet shortcrust pastry 400g fresh greengages, halved and stoned Icing sugar 2-3 tbsps greengage jam or lime marmalade For the sponge 50g …
Blood orange, ricotta and olive oil cake
From Bitter Honey: Recipes and Stories from the Island of Sardinia by Letitia Clark. For the base 1-2 blood oranges 100g sugar For the batter 200ml olive oil – any kind is good, I used virgin 200g caster sugar Pinch …
Rhyming Recipes
A delicious pudding that’s a poem from the days when few cooks could read or write
5 classic old puddings you need to try
Spotted Dick, Jam Roly Poly, Bakewell Pudding, Summer Pudding, Queen of Puddings
Tale of a pastry cutter
I used it to make Valentine’s cakes for a romantic poetry reading.
A day in the life of a Regency house
The 1830s Regency kitchen is where I work and from where I write this.
The pastry room – what was it like to work there? And a recipe for artichoke pie
A small dark room lies behind the meat safe in the Town House’s basement annexe
How to make Yorkshire Parkin
“It’s very sweet, with a distinct ginger flavour; sticky and a clinging texture” This is Yorkshire parkin as described for those who don’t know it. And if you don’t know it you should. This ginger-spiced chewy cake is certainly a …
How to make Bachelor’s and Spinster’s puddings
Two discovered recipes from mysterious sources and two antiquated words for being single
Pease pudding – how to make this vegan historical dish
How do you make historical food vegan? My library of historic cookbooks offered inspiration.
How to cook from a historical recipe
My first historical cookbook had no photos but also no ingredient list.
5 books that will get you passionate about food history
Are you interested in food AND history? Do you want to start cooking historic recipes but find it difficult to start?
How to make a delicious vegan Georgian poached fruit salad
Food can take you to other places. But wouldn’t it be more fun to travel in time?
How to make a spectacular plum cake from the 1820s
Recipes are like small detective stories. They can give historical clues.
How to make Elizabethan Gingerbread. An easy recipe using breadcrumbs.
An autumn afternoon called for gingerbread so I consulted my recipe books