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5 posts in this collection
- Audit Ale
A, usually very strong, ale traditionally brewed for the annual 'audit' at colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ales were formerly produced...
- Brasenose Ale
Hot beer with nutmeg, cloves and apple pieces, a form of Lamb's Wool. Consumed on Shrove Tuesday at Brasenose College, Oxford, with the college butler reading o...
- Isis Cheese
An unpasteurised cow's milk cheese, ripened using mead, said to give it a creamy, somewhat sticky, texture and distinctive flavour.
- New College Pudding
Dough of breadcrumbs, dried fruit, suet (or marrow suet), egg, sugar, sherry and nutmeg formed into small flattened rounds. Fried, sprinkled with sugar and serv...
- Oxford Grace Cup
Beer with lemon, sherry nutmeg and toasts. Known at least since 'Oxford night caps, a collection of receipts for making various beverages ' by R. Cook, 1847