Mince Pye without Meat

November 22, 2020November 21, 2020 Little DorritLeave a comment

I still remember my first-ever mincemeat pie, served on Christmas Day at the Charles Dickens Museum in London. It tasted warm and Christmas-y, the perfect treat after a cold trek across the city in the snow. Since then, my mind has associated mincemeat pies with a Dickensian, Victorian Christmas – but mincemeat pies actually go back much farther than that.

Onion Soup

November 8, 2020November 7, 2020 Little DorritLeave a comment

Compared to other 18th century soups, which almost always seem to include some obscure meats or animal parts and take hours to make, this is a relatively easy and inexpensive recipe from Elizabeth Raffald’s 1769 book The Experienced English Housekeeper.

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Mince Pye without Meat

Onion Soup