Cook: Sweetpea Pie. Gluten Free. Pretty. Green. Pie. 1744
This week’s recipe uses green peas. I came up with this unusual, mind-bending, gluten and dairy free dish in a roundabout way. Definitely thanks to Florence White, but not directly from her book. In researching her source for many vegetable…
Cook: Celery Fritters – gluten free (and FAILSAFE); a recipe from 1744
Florence White’s recipe for frying celery is taken from a Kitchen Garden book from 1744, called Adam’s Luxury and Eve’s Cookery. I found the book at the British Library and was eager to see why Florence had picked this recipe…
Cook: Mayonnaise & Tartare Sauce…”He little knows of England
who only England knows.” Charles Esme Francatelli was an Englishman born and bred, and prided himself on that fact, but he had inherited a gift for cooking from his Italian forebears and also had the advantage of being a pupil…
Cook: To Fry Sprats. Omega 3 breakfast richness.
These omega 3 rich, fatty fish are, according to a dear Mrs. Loftus from Southwold, a delicious and naturally nutritious breakfast. Start your day with a boost for your brain, with oils from real, sustainably caught fish, rather than a…
Cook: To Roast Goose in the English Fashion
The Roast Meat of Old England I was tempted to cook Moor Fowl, Jugged Pigeon, Ortolan or Roast Cygnet with you. But of course, and probably for the best, I’m not able to source any of these birds. The Cygnet…
Cook: Roast Duck with Gluten-Free Stuffing for a smaller Christmas setting
A duck serves fewer people than a chicken and certainly less than a turkey! Unlike a chook, it has the novelty value that a turkey does – making it a perfect festive option for a small family, a Christmas ‘en…
Cook: Marrow Bone. Simple Ways fit for Her Majesty.
Florence White devotes a few short entries to Marrow Bones. I admit right up front, that bone marrow is my secret pleasure. Osso Bucco is an enduring favourite dish not least for the somewhat messy picking of the bones at…
Cook: Scottish Fare Part II; Two and a Half Shellfish Receipts: ‘Potted Shrimp for an Australian Yuletide Table’ & ‘A Pot of Warm Langoustines’
Potted Shrimps, writes Florence White in Good Things In England, are delicious as an appetiser with wholemeal bread and butter. The Shrimps recipe is “From a Cookery Book belonging to Miss Hope, dated 1797”. Her brief ingredients list requires a…
Travel & Cook: Autumnal Scottish Fare Part I – Your Gratin, Miss Barrowman’s Custard?
Toasty Gratin of Haddock with Creamy Scotch Goat’s Cheese The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.* This dish is bold in its simplicity. Its…
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