Food

Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!

Lovely gravy, matey!

Food by LoisDecember 14, 2014

Foreign Cookery

This is a page from the section of Eliza Acton’s 1845 book Modern Cookery. There are four recipes on this page, one which started on the previous page for The King of Oude’s Omlet, and then here three pilaws and a kidgeree. The omlet starts with five fine eggs “cleared in the usual way” (… […]