reference: hammond-1819

Sweet pie filled with sliced apple, most often Bramley, with sugar and a sweet spice such as nutmeg, cinnamon etc. Usually only lightly baked. Served with cream...

Stiff batter of flour, egg and milk with spices. Boiled in a cloth and served with Melted Butter and sugar (Hammond 1819, Mrs.B, etc)

The clear liquid from beef which has been boiled until fallen, strained and skimmed of all fat.

Pancakes of buckwheat flour with milk, yeast and eggs (Hammond 1819, Eaton 1822, etc).

Small chunks of bread soaked in milk (or tea), mixed with a little fat (butter or suet), dried fruit and sweet spices, pressed into a mould and baked. Served co...

Any conglomerate of chopped, shallow-fried, left-overs from a previous day's meat dinner. Now most usually a dish, typically of potato and cabbage, fried into a...

Sweet pie filled with whole cheries in juice, often with a small admixture of other fruit, but with no spicings. (Hammond 1819, Eaton 1822, etc).

“A gastronomic paradox: the most English of dishes, made from the most un-English ingredients”

Cowheel is the fatty cartilage from around a beast's heel. Chunks are boiled, and form a sweet, mucilaginous gravy.

Eggs formed as spheres. (Hammond 1819, Mrs.B, etc)

'Sack', an earlier name for what has now become Sherry, was immensely popular in England and there have been several attempts to produce an imitation of it at h...

Any of several sweet desert dishes involving an item floating in a sea of something else, the simplest being jam mixed with stiff egg-white dropped with a spoon...

Jelly of rice, sago, pearl barley, hartshorn and eringo root (Eaton 1822).

Thick cookies made from stiffly beaten egg white with sugar and either ground almonds or desiccated coconut, dropped into masses onto a sheet and baked until cr...

An alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water. When flavoured with herbs it is Metheglin

Hot ale with spices such as ginger, nutmeg cinnamon, sometimes formerly including thickeners such as egg.

Crumb or flour with currants, suet, sugar, chilli, lemon and egg. Fried. "Serve them up with sweet sauce" (Eaton 1822).

A pork and veal sausage with breadcrumb, flavoured with sage. Prepared either in skins as a 'C'-shaped sausage, or formed skinless into rolls or patties. Receip...

Whole small, or sliced large, gherkins in brine and vinegar. English pickled gherkins have little or no spicing.

'Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets' by John Evelyn (Evelyn 1699) has; "Radish. The Seed-Pods of this Root being pickl'd, are a pretty Sallet"

Boiled sponge pudding made with dark fruit. The name appears to derive from the shape of the pudding, rather than its contents as very few receipts actually con...

A wobbly semi-set desert. Thick cream mingled with flour and eggs, boiled in a buttered cloth and served with a sauce of butter, rosewater and sugar "you may st...

Immature seed-pods of the common radish, either raw or very slightly cooked (Hammond 1819, etc)

Brisket of beef cured, either dry or wet, in salts with a small admixture of spices, commonly bay and juniper. Common sodium chloride salt is used, traditionall...

Known at least since 1760 as a sauce for salmon.

Rum with citrus juice (lemon, lime, orange, currants), sugar (Eaton 1822).

A sweet, snow-like, froth as an accompaniment to sweet deserts. Appears repeatedly in cookbooks until the end of the 19th Century.

Any light sweet cake made with flour and sugar etc. usually when given a sponge-like texture by the addition of egg. Before the invention of baking powder in th...

Beer made by fermenting treacle and water (Eaton 1822, Hammond 1819, etc).

Known by this name at least since advertisements of the mid 1700's (eg: Sussex Advertiser - Monday 26 July 1762, p4), York Ham is ham made in or near York or Yo...