Cook: Banana Bread for Poor Knights of Windsor
A recipe from Berkshire, England for “Poor Knights of Windsor” reads like supper for a real man – Brandy and lard drenched pain perdu with lashings of jam, sugar or cinnamon atop. Banana Bread has the eggs, fruit, cinnamon and…
Cook: Crystallised Violets & Creeping Charlie
Bringing the spring meadow into the kitchen has long been a tradition all over the world, but especially in England, where flowers cover the countryside for the season. Gluten free floral cake was called for. Royalty and peasants alike would…
Cook: Cashew and Vanilla Pear Puff
Today is my father’s birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! With both my children completely absorbed in the Fedup.com.au FAILSAFE Elimination Diet, the challenge was to come up with a receipt from Good Things in England that would be a wonderful birthday treat…
Cook: Pir Gam. That is, Pear Jam. Failsafe
Jam is an essential part of the English food tradition. Without it, what can we possibly put on our toast, wiggs or gluten free muffins and scones? Good Things In England has a few things to say about Pears. While…
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: Pineapple and Almond Fruit Cake; Gluten Free, from 1904
I love how Christmas Fruit Cakes look. Tall, dense, moist and richly coloured. I was strangely disappointed as a girl when a wedding cake turned out to be fruit cake underneath all its delicate, white frosting. Things have changed for…
Cook: 11.12.13 Plum Pudding Without Eggs from 1852; Gluten Free!
I wonder if Mrs Frome was making her Christmas pudding this late in the day! 11th December! This had better be my last Christmas Pudding for the year…unless I’m planning to save it for 25.12.14. That date doesn’t quite have…
Cook: Tropical Pudding for Christmas
Lord Barrington’s Plum Pudding. Gluten Free. Dairy-Free. No added Animal Fat. I’ve swapped the Suet for sweetly nourishing Coconut Oil, whose benefits include “antimicrobial properties; absorption directly for quick energy; and contribution to the health of the immune system.” according to my…
Cook: Orange Jelly and Apricot Jellied Oranges
“Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Orange Jelly”, writes a friend of Florence White’s from Yorkshire. Oranges were introduced to England from Spain as early as 1290, but became a more prominent part of English food after Sir Walter Raleigh re-introduced…
Cook: Honey Brandy Butter – or Florence White’s “American Sauce”
We can’t have a pudding receipt without Brandy Butter to accompany it. No refined sugar please. Every recipe out there seems to have more icing sugar added than it contains butter! It’s just not necessary and such sweetness leaves an…
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