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Tag Archives: fruit
A Christmas Cake, 1861
For this one I only have the images, no text. The four images begin with the ingredients laid out though to be fair, the method would be that of any other rich fruit cake recipe. Regard it as a sort … Continue reading
Easter Breads And Braids
Fruit Braid & Easter Ring This is possibly one of my favorite sweet-dough recipes. There are others but having used this on a number of occasions and always getting a good result I shall include it here. These recipes come … Continue reading
Summer Sun For The Winter
The Preserve of Preserves With the end of summer and the beginnings of a rapid slide into winter I thought I’d celebrate with a glass of wine! Except that the wine itself is not yet ready! It is a ‘work … Continue reading
Posted in The Kitchen Garden
Tagged autumn, Christmas, fruit, garden, summer, wine, winter
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Make Your Own English Country Wine
A glass of home-made Country wine is a tradition of old English hospitality that stretches back centuries. Forget grapes! Despite being universally accepted as the most reliable fruit for winemaking, grapes do not fare well in England. Therefore the juices … Continue reading
Posted in The Evolution Of . . .
Tagged Christmas, fruit, garden, traditional, vegetables
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Of Grains, Pulses, Nuts, Seeds, Vegetables, Fruits . . .
The Vegetarian Society defines a vegetarian as “Someone who lives on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits with, or without, the use of dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetarian
Tagged cheese, dairy, eggs, fruit, onions, potatoes, vegetarian
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Cooking with Wine
The concept of cooking with wine has been known since pre-Roman times, although it is they who are credited with refining the art and establishing the ground rules. One of the earliest and still most comprehensive cookery books ‘De re … Continue reading
Posted in The Evolution Of . . .
Tagged Apicius, English wine, Europe, fruit, mead, metheglin, Roman
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A Christmas Cake, 1861
For this one I only have the images, no text. The four images begin with the ingredients laid out though to be fair, the method would be that of any other rich fruit cake recipe. Regard it as a sort … Continue reading
Traditional Christmas Breads – France
The ‘fancy’ fruit bread has been a staple throughout the decades as a celebratory snack or simply a nicely presented tea-time treat for that ‘important’ guest! It has less fruit content than the French Fruit Braid shown here, where it … Continue reading
Cookery Post Bag
Once again we have a Lillian Mattingly article, this time for a recipe request service. Back in the dim and distant thirties there was no internet to log onto for a recipe or advice and although it was always possible … Continue reading
Cooking For One
Returning once more to the archive, this is an article from April 1939 that shows how far emancipation had come since the turn of the century. The single, or bachelor, girl was no longer reliant on finding a husband in order … Continue reading
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