The Best Christmas Pudding Award – An Historic Fight
Frumerty, Plum Pottage, Hackin Pudding and Plum Pudding battle it out
How to make Elizabethan Shred Mince Pies for a very special Christmas
A recipe from 1699 with raisins, suet, currants, peel, spices and sugar and…beef
How to make Mother Eve’s Pudding – an 1820s recipe.
A recipe written as a poem If you have a good pudding pray mind what you’re taughtTake two penny worth of eggs when they’re twelve for a groat,Then take of the fruit which Eve once did cozen,Well pared and well …
How to make Twitter a better place – with emotional food memories
Which food reminds you of your grandparents? For me, it’s seed cake served with tea in proper cups next to a blazing coal fire What’s your grandparent or food memory? I’d love to hear. The words above went out …
How to make Piccalilli – Regency Style!
One of the earliest pickles to become popular in England was piccalilli
A short history of puddings (in 5 Regency rooms)
Let me whisk you through a historic house feeding you morsels of puddings in each room we enter
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
A simple shortcrust pastry
This is a basic recipe and useful for mince pies and tarts. Ingredients 125g/4oz cold butter 250g/8oz plain flour 1 teaspoon salt A little cold water (about 1 tablespoon) Method Put the flour in a mixing bowl. Chop the butter …
5 classic old puddings you need to try
Spotted Dick, Jam Roly Poly, Bakewell Pudding, Summer Pudding, Queen of Puddings
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?
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