- Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46
…that hardened with the addition of water. {{Image url="Portlandcement.jpg" title="Portland cement" class="left" }} == A Recipe for Success == The specifications for the new cement read: a very pure limestone was to be burned to lime, the lime mix…
- Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…hire]] chemists, were asked by **Lord Marcus Sandys**, the former governor to **Bengal**, to create a fish sauce from a recipe that he had grown to like in India. {{{toc}}} As they were chemists and not chefs the resulting concoction was not very…
- Cheesecake — 2022-05-20 12:28:32
…e resembled cheesecake, but the English medieval cookbook, **[[Lasagne | The Forme of Cury]]** from 1390, has the first recipe that most resembles the modern cheesecake. == Original Recipe == {{Image url="Sambocade.JPG" class="left" title="Fr…
…hake þerin blomes of elren; & bake it vp with eurose, & messe it forth.” ::c:: == Elderflower Cheesecake == Modern recipe roughly translates as: - 1 pound fresh cheese - 2 Tablespoons elderberry flowers, or 1 tbsp elderberry cordial - 6… - Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
…ge in [[Cambridgeshire]] even has an iron with the official college crest which is used to burn the sugar topping. == Recipe == Ingredients Serves: 4-6 *600 ml Double cream (1 pint) *1 Teaspoon Vanilla essence *4 Egg yolks *3 Tablespoon Sugar …
- Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
…"King Richard II" width="" }} The English medieval cookbook, **The Forme of Cury**, in the British Museum has the first recipe for **Lasagne.** This cookbook, by the cooks of King Richard II’s household, is the first recorded recipe for a lasa…
…gna-based dish. **‘Cury’** is an Old English word for cuisine meaning: to cook, boil, or grill. == Recipe == Loseyns. XX II. IX. //Take gode broth and do in an erthen pot, take flour of payndemayn and make therof past with w… - Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…eath_date="29 July 1905" death_place="Pinner" }} === Agnes Marshall in 1888 === ~-[[CategoryFood]]:[[1800s]] The first recipe for an edible cone used to serve ice cream was in //Mrs Marshall's Cookery Book// printed in 1888. {{TOC}} Marshall was…
…h="300" }} == Cornets with Cream == >>{{amazon type="book" items="B0010PANVU" }}>> Marshall's cookery book included a recipe for **"Cornets with Cream"**. After making the ice cream and freezing she then explains how to make the cones using: … - Chicken Tikka Masala — 2021-08-09 21:27:48
…h was toned down and a sauce added to suit British palates used to having gravy with their meal. The first documented recipe for Currey (Curry) was published in ‘//Art of Cookery//’ by **Hannah Glasse**, 1747 in England.…
- Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
…opened a factory to produce "Dundee Marmalade". It was distinguished by thick chunks of bitter Seville orange rind. The recipe was a new twist on the already well-known fruit preserve of orange marmalade but this recipe was spreadable, on toast. …
…cribed "a choice pot of marmalade and a slice of cold ham" as "essentials of English table comfort". == History == The recipe book of Madam Eliza Cholmondeley, dated around **1677** and held at the Chester Record Office 4, has one of the earlies…
…t recipes for a //Marmelet of Oranges// that compares to the marmalade we know today. == Family Ties == One of Janet Keiller's … - Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…mson Moore, owner of the Midland Vinegar Company, offered to cancel his debt with the company and pay him £150 for the recipe, plus the use of the name HP, Garton jumped at the chance. Moore had been looking around for some time for a sauce to …
- Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
…kenzie. This lead Nigel Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove it was English with a pre-1972 recipe. When no one claimed the prize, Mackenzie proudly erected a plaque at the restaurant's entrance proclaiming it, **"The …
…Birthplace of one of the World's Favourite Puddings."** This is the original Banoffi Pie recipe as it first appeared in the book ** ‘The Deeper Secrets of the Hungry Monk’ **in 1974. {{Image url="HungryMonkplaqu…
…e.png" class="right" title="Hungry Monk Blue plaque" width="160" }} ==Banoffi Pie Recipe == 12 ounces uncooked shortcrust pastry 1.5 tins condensed milk (13.5 ounces each) 1.5 pounds firm bananas 375ml of dou… - Linoleum — 2020-08-17 08:43:03
… **Walton** accelerated the oxidation process by heating it with lead acetate and zinc sulphate. When he mastered his //recipe// he took out a patent eventually calling it **Linoleum**, derived from the Latin words “linum” (“flax”) and …
- Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
…Apicius Redivivus **'The Cook’s Oracle'** was a best selling book in Britain //and// the USA. It includes the first recipe for potato crisps: “**Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings” and cooked to a crisp.** == Jack of All == {{Image ur…
…his day. **The Cooks Oracle** covered all aspects of managing the domestic kitchen. It even includes eleven **ketchup recipes**, including two each for mushroom and **tomato ketchup.** {{Image url="PotatoCrisps.jpg" class="right" title="Potato…
… Crisps" width="300" }} ::c:: == From a simple recipe to a Billion Pound Industry == Today Walkers factory in Leicestershire is the largest in the world. It produces 11m pa…