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CONTENTS.
PAGE
PART
I.
PART
II.
Local Recipes
25
PART
III.
Calendar
51
PART
IV.
Special Occasions
79
Births
79
Marriages
83
Deaths
87
PART
V.
91
Breakfast
91
Lunch
Dinner
04
117
Soup
117
5
Contents.
PAGE
Fish
121
Meat
125
Sauces
130
Vegetables
134
Game
138
Salad
141
145
Dessert
149
PART
Miscellaneous
VI.
1
53
Fruit
153
Beverages
157
Cake
161
165
169
173
PART
I.
is
the
live
without eating ?
Owen Meredith.
" I
ONCE condescended
to
become
for a
time
Do you remember
of the dwarf, Sir
presented
Geoffrey Hudson,
in a pie to
as
we
lore,"
dive into
we
still
it
when
was no
The
learn
" pie of
In the days
uncommon
who was
flew.
architectural art.
7
We
and
stand aghast in
halls
some
of the old
manors
still
thought
it
worth while to
of hospitality, and
practise the
We
whole,
tables
solid
of
roast an
ox
oak inches
in
would
which seem to us
Our wonder
is
to serve an army.
fit
lessened as
the Second,
larders, pantries,
of
we remem-
King Richard
at his
thou-
board
Nothing seems
in the
show and
state
still
find,
and
is
difficult of access,
yet
when
undimmed
in
9
for
in
It is
the splendid
ambassadors, ministers of
brilliant
over
preside
giants,
down on
"
forgotten, and the " fragments which remain
are,
of Salters,
whose motto
most marvelous
pie,
is
dated 1394.
The Guild
Mary
of Barbers
have a Marrow or
cline to reveal.
Shall
we examine some
served in
banqueting
of
the family
on the dais
"
below the
gallery minstrels
halls
made
io
Peacock,
that
royal
was
bird,
served
in
truly
feathers and
sound of music
to the
carried to table
its
The Crane
was the favorite bird of William the Con" dull
time
William Davenant
Sir
queror.
country
in
madams
speaks of
March-
Marchpane
Wets a confection of pistachio
and sugar,
sweet
this
in
almonds
Elecampane, another
with
made
is still
nuts,
some
parts of England
and Germany.
Blanc-Mange
or
Manger
down
pounded
flesh of poultry,
and milk
sugar.
of
cinnamon, ginger,
sugar,
raisins,
and
gobbets, pounded
in
fried herbs,
thickened
saf-
fron.
Mortrews
mentioned
rived
in
its
"
mortar.
Take the
and temper
that
boiled and
is
the
it
it is
powder
[
with the
in
(stiff)
which
and
boil
of ginger, saffron
standing
the
"
it
and
and
Form
it
was
cast thereon
and do theresalt
flour
and look
it all
of ginger
From
same
self
it
of eggs)
it
broth
alye (mix)
Ayern (yolks
to powder
to dust.
broth
of
horn togyder.
thereto
in
of Cury."]
with
12
And
of
those
who
lived
lived
and
died
The
it
As
light
it
The hand-lock
By
don
at
Haddon
England
is
little
Hall.
It is said
" in the
if,
failed to
drink up
13
14
15
16
17
19
20
21
22
23
24
PART TWO.
LOCAL
FOR many
RECIPES.
products, and
for certain
The
rives
Third,
around
It is
prefix from
when
saffron
the time
Walden
de-
Edward
of
was extensively
grown
it.
still
retains
England.
If an earthquake were to engulph England to-morrov.'
the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere
among the ruins just to celebrate the event.
JERROLD.
Yorkshire Tea-cake.
"
Aunt
Betsey's."
26
Work
bowl.
small
into
out
as
Put
in
thin
as
pan to
an
half
split, toast
Roll
possible.
shallow
for
rise
this a
fill
hour.
and butter.
Yorkshire Pudding.
One
eggs, a teaspoonful of
beef on a
spit,
flour,
four
Raise a roast of
salt.
an hour before
it is
done.
Serve cut
in squares.
Doncaster.
and
its
church,
butter-scotch."
its
Butter-Scotch.
Three pounds
of coffee "
one-half tea-
of
lemon.
Dissolve
all
the
sugar in
without stirring
till
Local Recipes.
breaks
it
when dropped
from the
Do
fire.
in
27
cold water.
Take
fire.
When
it is
nearly cold
cut in squares.
" I
chose
my
would wear
She could read
well.
any English book withthat
ties
out
much spelling,
but,
and
cooking,
none
She
an excellent contriver
though
in housekeeping,
with
all
her contrivances."
we grew
richei
28
Wakefield.
"
West
Riding
bakers
its
muffins, of
Don-
size
them
known
to
un-
folk."
Pikelet-Pikelin.
"
A light cake
count of
its
thinness, for
it is
properly a thin,
circular tea-cake."
Muffins.
warm
salt,
ter
two
milk, to
of sugar
ty
Beat hard.
Shape.
minutes on
toast.
Into this
of but-
sift
about
enough to make a
When
light
cut
stiff
into
hot griddle.
Split
and
Local Recipes.
29
Yarmouth.
"
As we drew
nearer,
little
Peggotty that a
mound
hinted to
it,
and also
if
little
'
Herring
pies
bound
that,
by an
Yarmouth was
Ride a
trot
in
Banbury
is
noted for
its "
30
Banbury
zeal
described
is
in
the lines by
Braithwaite
"
To Banbury came
I,
profane one
For
killing of a
mouse on Sunday."
find
Banbury Cakes.
One pound
pound
flour,
of sugar,
of butter, three-quarters of a
two pounds
pound
of currants, one-half
of
ounce
pound
of
candied orange-peel.
Roll
and
fill
Local Recipes.
gether,
31
sift
hot oven.
Chelsea
for a
Buns.
was noted
for
These were
1712, "Rare Chelsea Bunns."
made and sold at the " Old Chelsea Bunn
House," which has long since disappeared.
Bath
was
Hawkshead,
in the
land of Wordsworth,
place for
breaks
all
the
in
is
a stopping-
summer season
may invest in
its
And
at
Cheese-Cakes
at
and unwholesome
eat of
to
said to
" cakes."
The
in
following recipe
Queen Elizabeth.
Cheese-Cakes.
One cup
of sour milk
milk boiled
till
they curd.
of sweet
Strain through a
32
Add
sieve.
Bake
in
with crust.
Winchester.
Henry de
Cross
in 1136.
He endowed
it
with 2,000
all
who demand
it.
Shrewsbury.
"
The
of
known."
Shrewsbury cakes.
To
friends
all
in
Durham,
George the
"
First
Durham Mustard
"
is still
in de-
Local Recipes.
mand, although made
sound
bells of the
of the
playing "
in
33
Old England."
Eccles
Everton
boasts of
its toffy.
Biddenden
In
the
twin
century
twelfth
sisters,
according to
some
sors
of
"
Siamese
bequeathed to
the
Twins,"
the
land, the
parish
of
income of
This
is
still
sisters
being
dis-
tributed to visitors.
Cornish
folk
are
famous
they make so
for
many
their
pies
sorts, there is a
indeed
saying
34
is
baked
in a pie.
Mexico.
The
" a
is
the Tortilla,
thin
flour
[Velasquez.]
Italy.
'In Italy
we
a dream-land."
"
O
O
dolce Napoli
suol beati
"
!
Recipe
before a king"
given by the
minister of
Foreign
to
de Bourbon,
last
"fit
it
to
set
was a favorite
Affairs
Francesco
whom
dish.
Put
large
Slice
Pepper thickly.
Add
with a
size of a thimble.
a layer of macaroni.
Local Recipes.
egg-plant.
35
Bake an hour
in a slow, sure
oven.
Russia
"
'
Twas Caviare
to the general."
[Hamlet.]
Caviare
is
made
and salted
is
a country of ameliorations."
Chupaties
are
made
of flour
and a
little
well
added.
salt,
They
it
is
fire.
Germany.
" The attempt of my domestic group to sustain the
American style of cooking continued about six weeks,
after which time we were ready to submit to all possible
gravies in fact, to eat anything, and that five times a
;
36
day, that our
beings."
proper in civilized
Zimmet-kuchen.
Make an
Spread thinly
and evenly
kuchen
is
shallow pan
in a long,
Over
bourgeoise.
egg, beaten
till
froths.
it
thick
this spread
Over
this
an
drop a
and
there.
mon.
Let
rise
and bake
golden
until a
brown.
Scotland.
"
bread."
Bannock.
"
rye,
pease or
fire."
Sir Walter
Scott.
Scone.
of flour
and two
Work in
Add enough
teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
well a quarter
pound of
butter.
Local Recipes.
37
pint.
gles,
Bake an
hour.
Scotch Short-bread.
Two pounds
half
pound
Bake
till
of sugar.
crisp.
Haggis.
all
night.
lie in
cold
liver.
Chop
Mix with two
fore the
salt.
fire.
occasionally.
swell.
Place on a
Prick
it
38
Local Recipes.
39
40
Local Recipes.
41
42
Local Recipes.
43
44
Local Recipes.
45
46
Local Recipes.
47
48
Local Recipes.
49
5o
PART
III,
CALENDAR.
Christmas.
"
Now
all
And
meats choke,
And
all
turning.
Without
And
if
door
the
sorrow
let
lie,
for cold
it
hap
to die
We'll bury
it
in
a Christmas pie,
And evermore
be merry."
George
On
Christmas eve
in
Wither.
were lighted.
toast
hope
of
52
It
for a short
My
The Christmas
A brand
noise,
Herrick.
fire.
A standing dish on
Frumenty,
made
a dish
of
in milk,
On
the waits.
Nowell, nowell,
God
rest you,
merry gentlemen
Was
Christmas Dinner.
" Ule, Ule,
Was
more
Calendar.
53
How
And
all
knocked
thrice
how
music
how
worded one
how
there
was
a pause,
" lastly,
He was
by a serving-man on each
wax
large
sung
light,
side,
attended
bearing a
pray you
Qui
all
estis in
sing merrily,
convivio."
54
And
drink your
fill
all
it will,
out-a."
Frumenty,
clean wheat and bray
hulls be all
gone
and take
up and
it
fresh broth
off,
it
in a
mortar
and seethe
let it
cool
it
it
till
the
burst,
it till it
it all
Take
of almonds, or
little
"
a recipe
and wet
boil
it
fresh mutton."
What
may
be un-
rabbits,
four wild
duck,
Calendar
two woodcock,
six
55
snipe,
four partridges,
Dorothy
tress
Howick.
It
Patterson,
housekeeper
in
According to an
pie.
it
row shape
sixty-
to carry
to table.
old
men
at
people,
scrupled to par
take of them.
"
is
the priceless
The
original
Plum-pudding
first
course
of the
Christmas
56
dinner.
It
When
prunes, cloves,
"
let it
whistle as
the wind
it
is chill
will,
And
currants,
still
And brought
With all his
its
course had
hospitable train.
Calendar.
And
57
The
fire,
till it
high,
And
all
in
Hogmanay.
The
last
is
so called in
58
On
Scotland.
this
Hogmanay,
trollalay,
And none
of your gray,"
in
oaten cake.
In the evening there are merry-makings,
and small
"
parties
ale
New
happy
Year."
is
called" First-foot
"
Formerly the
year was
first
Monday
much observed
of
the
new
as a time of feast-
Handsel Monday
New
Year's Day,
till
(be healthy).
The
first
of
January
is
Calendar.
59
Twelfth Day.
Now
Must
we must know
revel as
'
HERRICK.
One
of the
It
contained, beside
of these
for the
evening.
Mary, Queen of
Scots, once
celebrated
was
first
kept
in 813.
Moses
in the "
School for
Scandal,"
his will
was to be
Night
last cen-
for
laid
in
in
of which
and punch, to
6o
be presented
in
Lane Theater,
As
engaged there.
the large
company now
beyond the
feast far
it
still
memory
of
The
Robert Baddeley."
Shrove Tuesday.
"Some folks think
houses are
tiled
Franklin.
Shrove Tuesday
cake Day," and
Bell "
"
is still
in
is
days,
in
Pan-
kept by a
meat
all
strict absti-
through
the
dripping and
cakes.
"
rung.
from
it
sometimes called
some
nence
till
lard
in
To consume
forty
all
the
all, it
was usual to
call
summoned by
bell,
Calendar.
61
Sir
at
cease.
Mid-Lent.
"
I'll
blesses thee
It
was, and
custom
for
in-
some places
maidens
still
at service to
the
is,
have
holi-
The Simnel
is
especially celebrated
Salop.
an old
in
Hereford
and
make a cake of the remains of their Christmas pudding and Lenten bread, disputed as
to the baking or boiling.
Finally becoming
to,
and
62
name
the combined
to the
happy
was given
result.
Some people
Lambert Simnel,
allow
naming
this cake, of
writes in 1695
"
This cake
is
plums and
It
Palm-Sunday.
The custom
or "
in
of eating figs
Fig-Sunday
on Palm-Sunday
" prevails in
many
counties
Good Friday.
"
One
a penny,
Two
a penny,
Good-Friday morning.
As many
as
Bunn House
"
on that day.
fifty
"
Old
Bread
Calendar.
baked on Good-Friday
never to get
bun
popularly supposed
and
stale,
kept throughout
is
Through an
St.
is
63
many houses
in
women
Symonds
bequest of Peter
beth's time
boys
sixty
Queen
in
the
of
Eliza-
Blue Coat
The
raisins.
origin
the
of
The word
ancient.
"
were discovered
marked with a
at
" is
boun
Some
at
derived from
miracle
Easter.
is
the day
when from
Our Lord
all
the dead
arose.
On
some
of
the
Museo Borbonica
Rome.
This
Loaves
very
is
Herculaneum.
buns
cross
is
come,
64
The
The custom
of giving
eggs on Easter
They
is
"Pace "
or Paschal
Pope Paul V.
Mon-
day.
St.
for dinner
Queen Elizabeth
mas.
is
on Michael-
said to
have been
when
she
re-
Spanish Armada."
All Saints' Day.
"
Some merry,
" It
Burns.
Calendar.
65
soul-cake.'
and seeded.
It
was composed
and frumenty
Pasties
incidental to the
same evening.
begging
of oatmeal
'
were
People went
a-souling
that
';
is,
for a cake."
was
instituted, in 993.
He
invited
them down
Guy Fawkes,
in the cellar,
'
'
" Tharf-cake,"
Ditchfield, in "
is
eaten on
is
and
London
word
is
"
Harcake,"
of Odin, the
an ancient pagan
festival.
relic of
66
Martinmas.
"
And Martinmas
When
TUSSER.
On
were
So custom-
was
called a "
mart
Northumberland a beef
Calendar.
67
68
Calendar.
69
70
Calendar.
71
72
Calendar.
73
74
Calendar.
75
76
Calendar.
77
78
PART
IV.
SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
Births.
Caudle.
A kind
of
warm
drink, a
mixture of wine
79
8o
Special Occasions.
82
Special Occasions.
83
Marriages.
And
be spice."
Herrick.
84
Special Occasions.
85
86
Special Occasions,
87
Deaths.
funeral
is
still
regarded
attended.
"
;
"
York-
was
she had
am
rural
A woman
lately
scorn
in
but
sided 'em
like.
all off
Now,
with
88
Special Occasions.
89
90
PART
V.
dyspepsia after."
Moravian Bread.
Scald a pint of milk with four tablespoonfuls of butter
spoonful of
salt
warm
Beat
place.
fuls of butter,
quarter
in
the
ture.
oven.
pound
in
in
sugar.
and
a tea-
pints of flour.
a very
Mix two
tablespoon-
dough and
brown
fill
sugar.
Make
holes
in a
very hot
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
L.ofC.
99
ioo
101
io2
103
104
Lunch.
" Luncheon is base ingratitude to breakfast, and premeditated insult to dinner."
Nut Sandwiches.
Chop English
nuts,
hickory,
walnuts,
or
any
almonds, butterothers,
very
fine,
slices of bread.
105
io6
107
io8
109
no
in
12
113
ii4
115
n6
117
Dinner.
1
'
The dinner
is
for eating,
and
my
wish
is
that guests,
Bacon.
Soup.
" Beautiful soup, so rich, so green,
Soup
Alice in
Wonderland.
taste,
and
n8
119
120
how
121
'
as
men do
a-land
eat
Sardines.
Broil the fish
greased.
on an oyster
broiler, well
122
Breakfast, Lunch,
Dinner
123
124
125
Meats.
"Oh,
the pig
Do come and
how
taste
Charles Lamb.
Three Dinners from a Leg of Mutton.
Cut a large leg into three equal
Make
and seasoned.
oven
in the
until
in
the
in
slices
The
and
Bone the
and vinegar.
it
spice.
of
Add more
cheese,
Lay bunches
parts.
Tie
in
sliced carrots,
shape.
third piece
in salt
and
oil
lard
pound
of bacon.
Or
stuff
126
for
Roast Mutton.
Dress
it
quickly,
desire,
That
Glutton
"
On
Oh, ye gods,
how
shall dine
"
!
127
128
129
130
Sauces.
"
est,
known
Of
'
all
'
Bread Sauce.
pepper.
of
bouilli.
and
Salt
til)
Served
in
From
in
the French.
131
132
133
134
Vegetables.
accomoder
choux
les
rouges,"
Du
j^A.
bouillon,
chou.
que de
echauder
Faites
Crequy, 1760.
deux
les
la
et
choux a
au bouillon.
girofles,
Chr6tienne a
la
Duchesse
et
sincere
Marquise de
135
136
137
138
Game.
Salmi
a la bourgeoise gentilhomme.
Four larded
two
egg placed
sprigs
of
in
parsley,
two
finely
When
shallots
minced,
and
stir-
When
flour.
well
in-
bouquet
of
ful of water,
of a bay-leaf,
two
trifle
of
truffles of Perigord,
of a can of button
and
the
cinnamon, a dash of
and
for
salt,
nutmeg.
the juice
mushrooms, a tablespoon-
St. Julien.
Allow
desired consistency.
this
to boil to the
of
perfumed sauce.
Immediately before
placing the slmi in the chafing dish and decorating with croutons, drop in a peppercorn
and
stir briskly.
139
140
141
142
Salad.
"
To make a salad
man
mad-
Dainty Salad.
Roll
with butter-
143
144
145
146
The proof
of the
pudding
is
in the eating."
Fig Pudding.
One
suet,
flour,
cinnamon, half
a teaspoonful of
pint of
figs.
Mix the
chopped
figs.
Add to
with
hours.
the
of soda,
eggs
of
one of
nutmeg, a
beaten
light.
Steam
five
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148
149
'
1^0
Dessert.
"
'
'
'
Pope.
Cafe Mousse.
Add
cup of sugar.
Cook
four
in
coffee.
double
minutes,
boiler
stirring
it.
whipped cream.
beater, cover
Put
it
and pack.
in a freezer,
without
six hours.
" If you have dined with contentment, you have dined
Mayor of London."
151
152
153
PART
VI.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fruit Bananas.
Cut them
cream,
in slices,
unsweetened.
Hand
with them
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156
Miscellaneous.
157
158
Miscellaneous.
159
Beverages.
" At Bacharach
on the Rhine,
At Hochheim on the Main,
And at Wiirtzburg on the Stein,
Grow the three best kinds of wine."
Golden Legend.
Mulled Wine.
Put cinnamon and allspice to taste to steep
in
Add
eggs and
Add
Heat
to a boil a pint of
spice.
i6o
Miscellaneous.
161
162
Miscellaneous.
163
Cake.
"
Aye to the leavening, but there's yet in the work herekneading, the making of the cake, the heating
of the oven, and the baking.
Nay, you must stay the
cooling, too, as you may chance to burn your mouth."
Shakespeare.
after the
worked to cream,
"
"
\ cloves,
" rants,
"
spoons
" f e
gg s
"
and
fine ginger.
>
lb-
sifted, 3
" a froath.
" cake.
" the
cinnamon, 4
raisons,
It
To
cleaned cur-
lbs.
citron,
pt.
ice
mace,
oz.
it,
brandy, 4
tak
whites
pounded
must be
starch to bind
wind to harden."
it
to your
on thin and
set in
MARGARET
BuN-
laid
[From
Margaret
wife
James
of
" Pil-
given
by her
The
recipe
third great-granddaughter.]
is
164
Miscellaneous.
165
166
Miscellaneous.
167
Rowan
(A Scotch
Jelly.
Take rowans
equal weight.
Add
Slice apples
straining a
of juice.
apples
in
and
after
pound
recipe.)
or rose-hips and
pound
of sugar to a
68
Miscellaneous.
169
170
Miscellaneous.
171
A large
lump
two teaspoonfuls
of
sugar.
White
one or
of one
Stir slowly
till
172
Miscellaneous.
173
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Miscellaneous.
175
A
out
in a
room
will drive
176
Miscellaneous.
177
178
APR 2
'
1902
APR
"1902