The Great Plum Pudding ‘Bake’-Off
Four more sleeps till Christmas. The mental background burble of the culinary checklist is getting louder. Make pastry. Bake biscuits for gingerbread house. Make mince pies. Prove stollen. Decorate Christmas cake.…
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Shortbread for New Year: the Evolution of a Recipe
This week, Elizabeth writes about New Year’s baking. Tartan tins of shortbread, optionally adorned with romantic depictions of Eilean Donan castle, Scottie dogs, or Bonnie Prince Charlie, are the clichéd epitome of a…
Christmas feasting in St Andrews
With various Christmas dinners looming, I was wondering what students might have been eating for their Christmas dinners in times past, if they were not lucky enough to be going home. From the foundation of the…
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 18: Pancakes Pancakes Pancakes!
This year Shrove Tuesday falls on Tuesday, 4th March. Naturally, there is only one thing I should cover in this week’s blog post…Pancakes, Pancakes, Pancakes! Shrove Tuesday, the religious celebration marking the start…
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 8: The Great Mince Pie Bake Off
When we first started talking about cooking our way through the collections, one of the early ideas was to make mincemeat for Christmas following an historic recipe that contained meat. Once we started looking for…
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 2: Mrs Edwards’s cook book
We bought this recipe book at auction recently, and it arrived with no provenance information. However, from the names and places mentioned, I have worked out that it belonged to Mrs Elizabeth Edwards, wife of George…
Introducing this year’s blog theme: 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s!
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, and followed by 52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations. While we…