Straight to the recipe Russian pastry from the classic French cuisine Coulibiac or coulbac is a traditional Russian pie that…
Straigh to the recipe The first new historical recipe of 2018 concerns small chicken pies from nineteenth-century French cook Carême.…
"Keep it simple: start with an I" The banketletter is one of the few traditional Dutch Christmas bakes, as most…
The Dutch are famous for eating 'Dutch new' or 'matjes' herring, which is essentially still raw. Tourists stare with fascinated…
For Victorian trifle, but also excellent with tea or coffee Mrs Beeton uses two kinds of cookies with almonds in…
With oxtail meat and stock and dried ceps For the family Christmas dinner in 2014 I had prepared an old-fashioned clear…
Although actually it's English! The Dutch consider Bishop wine as a typically Dutch mulled wine for Sint Nicholas Eve. But…
Straight to the recipe The introduction to the recipe is on this page, about Antonin Carême and the history of soufflés,…
Straight to the recipe Pork pies with Stilton cheese Not so many decades ago, English cuisine stood for bland taste:…
To part 1 of the history of pasta When I published two macaroni recipes from World War I, I also…