after her coronation in 1837? Have a parliamentary meeting? Have tea with all the royal dignitaries? No – she gave her dog, Dash, a bath.
Baked Orange Pudding
Ingredients – 6oz of stale sponge cake or bruised ratafias, 6 oranges, 1 pint of milk, 6 eggs, ½ lb of sugar, paste. Mode – bruise the sponge cake or…
To Make Macaroons
Take a pound of almonds, let them be scal’d, blanched and thrown into cold water, then dry them in a cloth, and pound them in a mortar, moisten them with…
Ginger & Orange Water Ice
Pound 8 ounces of preserved ginger, mix it with one quart of orange ice water; pass it through a tammy and freeze. To make orange ice water – 1 pint…
Banana Cream Ice
Peel 6 ripe bananas and pound them to a pulp, add the juice of 2 lemons and a glass of curacoa. Pass through a tammy cloth and finish with 1…
Lime Marmalade Cream Ice
Mix a teacupful of marmalade with 1 pint of cream or unsweetened custard and the juice of two of the fruit and 1 wineglassful of fruit syrup. Pass through a…
A Westminster Fool
Take a penny-loaf, cut it in thin slices, wet them with sack, lay them in the bottom of a dish, take a quart of cream, beat up six eggs, two…
Potted Stilton
To pot cheese- cut down half a pound of good sound mellow stilton, with two ounces of fresh butter; add a little mace and made mustard. Beat this well in…
To Pot Mushrooms
Ingredients Mushrooms Salt Butter Steps Take of the best mushrooms, and rub them with a woollen cloth; those that will not rub, peel, and take out the gills, and throw…
Spinach with Cream & Eggs
‘Spinage’ with Cream and Eggs This being a pretty genteel dish, it is a pity to leave it out. Scald it in a morsel of butter and water and salt,…
To Make Fine Sausages
Take six pounds of good pork, free from skin and grisles and fat, cut it very small, and beat it in a mortar till it is very fine; shread six…
Koobbe (bread stuffed with meat)
We have been favoured with a receipt for this savoury preparation, which, at sea, in camp, on Indian hunting excursions, and long marches in India, is found to be very…
Salads, the Victorian way
Of Salads: Salad herbs are cooling and refreshing. They correct the putrescent tendency of animal food, and are anti-scorbutic. Salads are at any rate a harmless luxury where they agree…
To Make Caraway Brandy
Steep an ounce of caraway-seeds and six ounces of sugar in a quart of brandy for nine days, and clear it off; it is a good cordial. Eliza Smith …
Sliced Beef & Wow Wow Sauce
Chop some parsley leaves very finely, quarter two or three pickled cucumbers, or walnuts, and divide them into small squares, and set them by ready; -put into a saucepan a…
Vanilla Cream
Ingredients – 1 pint of milk, the yolks of 8 eggs, 6 oz. Of sugar, 1 oz of isinglass, flavouring to taste of essence of vanilla. Mode – Put the…
Cook books we like to use
Don’t be put off by these books being old – many of them are still available in modern editions, if you want to look at them further. Eliza Acton…