The Warwickshire County Record Office has, naturally, a vast array of recipes within its archive. Mary Wise’s cookbook is well-known, but there are many other culinary delights dating from the 16th ...
I approach this task with quite a few misgivings. I can do the silver dish (standard saucepan) and sourcing the ingredients is fine; I have apples on the tree in ...
The first archive recipe in the Heritage Cooking Challenge comes from one of Warwickshire County Record Office‘s most famous collections, the Waller Family papers. This collection includes the well-known recipe book belonging ...
This is the second in the series of the Heritage Cooking Challenge and this month it is fudge!
Weights and measures
The recipe for chocolate fruit fudge in the Hemming Family of Henley in ...
When looking for a recipe to try for this project, I gazed wistfully over the choices, bemoaned the fact cheesecakes had already been taken (I do like a good cheesecake, ...
So we got to the stage of making the pie…
As you may recall, one of the major challenges was hunting for the artichokes in the first place! Tinned seemed a ...
So the first problem was actually reading the recipe…
Having overcome that, the next problem was overcoming the language. A chance conversation saved me doing something overly stupid, maybe. I wondered ...
Method
Though it felt a bit odd, I followed the recipe to the letter and added the water (cold), margarine and sugar and heated it over a low heat. This was ...
As the autumn season continues, and the air feels a bit fresher, it seems an apt time to introduce the fourth recipe in our Heritage Cooking Challenge. Taken from an early ...
I’d like to say it was a dark, stormy night, as all good stories begin… In actual fact it was a sunny Saturday afternoon in August.
According to reliable websites, the Globe ...