Food History Jottings

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Ickworth Real Lives

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The refurbished housekeeper's room at Ickworth complete with 1930s housekeeper An enormous amount of nostalgic interest has recent...
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Monday, 5 March 2012

Lady Westmorland's Sweetmeat Pudding

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Lady Westmorland's Sweetmeat Pudding is a 'whitepot', the forerunner of bread and butter pudding I recently gave a lect...
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Thursday, 23 February 2012

The Pudding King?

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George I (School of Godfrey Kneller). Is that an orb with a sceptre and cross on the table?  J ust dip into the vast amount of ma...
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Monday, 13 February 2012

Trayne Roste - A Fifteenth Century English Spit Cake

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Trdelník, sometimes called chimney cake because of its hollow cylindrical form If you have ever been to Prague at Christmas time y...
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Sunday, 12 February 2012

Pumping up the Syllabub

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To make whip syllabub the most common tool was a birch whisk used to excite a mixture of wine, lemon juice and cream into creating a lay...
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Ivan Day
I am an independent social historian of food culture and also a professional chef and confectioner. I run practical courses on all aspects of British and Italian food history at my home in the English Lake District. I am also the author of a number of books and many papers on the history of food and have curated many major exhibitions on food history in the UK, US and Europe. The main aim of this blog is to attempt to expose and correct many of the fairy stories that are written about the history of our food. I am assisted in this task by the Food History Jottings researcher Plumcake.
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