Pippins are a variety of apple mainly grown for use in hard cider today. Historically, however, they were often used in puddings and baked desserts such as this 1623 recipe from Gervase Markham for A Pippin Tart.
Read More »Category: 17th Century
Pannekoeken
Nearly every culture throughout history has had some form of pancake. After all, food doesn’t get much simpler than cooking batter in a pan. Pancake recipes are often difficult to find in early cookbooks, however; pancakes were so simple and easy to make that the instructions often weren’t written down.
Read More »An Extraordinary Good Cake
This recipe originally comes from Robert May’s The Accomplisht Cook, or, the Art and Mystery of Cookery, published in 1660. I used a modernized version from A Taste of History: 10,000 Years of Food in Britain, which reduces the size of the original from a twenty-pound monstrosity to a cake capable of being baked in a 9-inch tin.
Read More »