Food History Jottings

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Block Gingerbread

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Recreating a Nineteenth Century Dundee Gingerbread Halfpenny (above) and penny (below) wooden gingerbread blocks formerly belonging to D...
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Wednesday, 10 July 2013

More Edible Artistry

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The images on this page are of food produced by attendees on my two most recent courses, with a little help from me! I do try to convey t...
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Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Lattice Top Tarts and Their Precursors

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John Thacker's 1758 Marrow Pudding or Poudin de Mouëlle formée with its ornate cut cover A few days ago a researcher working on a T...
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Frederick Nutt's Millefruit Biscuits

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Frederick Nutt's Millefruit Biscuits on a small English bobbin stemmed salver from the 1760s. The raised edge around the top of the s...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks

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Charles Elmé Francatelli's German Tourte of Apricots is a wonderful tart from the early reign of Queen Victoria Those of you who f...
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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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