Benjamin Maund’s 1824 Recipe for ‘Bilberry Wine’
This C19th method is quite an elaborate interpretation of an original Italian wine, but the results could be interesting.
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Mary Hooker’s 1846 Recipe for ‘Berry Pudding’
Here’s an incredibly simple, batter-based, fruit pudding recipe from the nineteenth century.
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Esther Copley’s 1827 Recipe for ‘Gooseberry Wine in Imitation of Champaign’
Here’s another C19th gooseberry recipe from Mrs Copley, this time for a tipple to tickle your tastebuds.
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Esther Copley’s 1827 Recipe for ‘Baked Apple or Gooseberry Pudding’
Here’s a quick and easy recipe for a batter pudding, that sounds like a delicious way to make great use of some of your gooseberry crop.
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Alexis Soyer’s 1855 Recipe for Fruit Puddings
This is a very simple recipe for a classic, English-style, boiled pudding, penned by a rather remarkable author.
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Dr Alvin Wood Chase’s 1871 Recipe for ‘Apple Pie Which is Digestible’
Well, you wouldn’t want to have to choke your way through an indigestible apple pie, would you?
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Ads of Yore: R. Halliday and Co.’s Hothouses and Orchard Houses
This 1873 advertisement for a local firm of engineers who once built vast glasshouse ranges caught my eye the other day.
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Mrs Wigley’s 1877 Recipe for ‘Apple Snowballs’
Looking for an alternative to Christmas Pud? Here’s a recipe you’d have to be brave to attempt, but I think if you pulled it off the results could be quite impressive.
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Nellie Willey’s 1887 Recipe for ‘Apple Snow’
Here’s a quick and easy recipe that makes good use of a bit of apple purée and a leftover egg white.
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Book Notes: The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona, by Bill Laws
This new book explores the history, production and impact of one of the very finest examples of Victorian-era pomology and botanical art.
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The ‘Beefing’ Apples Story, Chapter Two, Part Three is Now Live
The latest instalment of the story looks at the relative success of Robert Hogg’s plan to rescue ‘Striped Beefing’ from fading into obscurity.
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Juliet Corson’s 1882 Recipe for ‘Racket Club Pudding’
This simple C19th pudding recipe sounds sounds like a hearty, wholesome, stick-to-your-ribs, winter warmer of a dish to me.
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Making Miss Beecher’s ‘Apple Lemon Pudding’ from 1848
My long quest to find a properly lemon-flavoured lemon pudding has led me to this nineteenth century recipe.
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Miss Beecher’s 1848 Recipe for ‘An Apple Lemon Pudding’
This C19th recipe for a lemony, appley, baked egg custard sounds like simplicity itself to prepare and rather delicious to eat.
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The Beefing Apples Story, Part Two, is Now Live
The second half of the nineteenth century provides us with Dr. Robert Hogg, Dr. Henry Graves Bull, switching synonyms, pomological pugilism, and a whole lot more.
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Mrs J. C. Croly’s 1866 Recipe for ‘Apple and Tapioca / Sago Pudding’
Can this pair of mid-C19th recipes redeem two nightmare puddings of school-day infamy, via the addition of tasty baked apples?
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E. A. Beal, on Apples, Our Most Valuable Fruit
I can’t find much to argue with in this apple-themed excerpt from a C19th textbook about food and drink.
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“Agricola” on the Moral Philanthropy of Good Cider
I have no idea who this “Agricola” fellow might have been, but by Jove, I do like the sound of his pro-cider rhetoric.
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Eliza Acton’s 1845 Recipe for ‘Black Caps Par Excellence’
This C19th recipe is for a classic version of baked apples, scorched on the top, then slow-stewed in sweet wine.
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Eliza Acton’s 1845 Recipe for ‘Queen Mab’s Summer Pudding’
The earliest recipe for a ‘summer pudding’ that I’ve found so far results in a very different dish to the bright pink bread-dome we’re used to.
