Food by Lois

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” (… […]

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Bird of Paradise

I love these flowers, strelitzia reginae, so exotic so extraordinary! They come originally from South Africa but they grow all over the world now. The name comes from Queen Charlotte, who was married to George III; she was Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and it’s from this these wonderful flowers got their name. Charlotte and George had a […]

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