The Old Foodie

Today’s household hints come from Mrs. Ellis's housekeeping made easy, or, Complete instructor in all branches (Sarah Stickney Ellis; 18...

Today I want to consider one more of the classic compound butters – made with anchovies - before I move on to another topic tomorrow. Peop...

Mackeral à la maître d’hôtel, as we found out in Friday’s post, has been a popular dish for a very long time. ‘The great authority’ mention...

You might not think that you do, but you probably do some historical cookery from time to time. Take garlic butter for example. Garlic butte...

The London Adviser and Guide (1776) by John Trusler, must be one of the earliest guide books published for travellers to that great city. T...

There is avery curious recipe for butter which I have been meaning to post for some time, in the hope that your comments will enlighten me a...

April 29 ... Butter is the natural corollary to bread. After several - Nay! - Numerous bread stories over the last couple of years, I am...

April 16 The very strict dietary rules decreed for hundreds of years by the Christian Church were a very powerful inspiration for fake foo...

Today, November 24th … The word “sandwich” first appeared on this day in 1762, in the journal of the historian Edward Gibbon. “I dined at th...