20th century

Braised Belgian Endives

Straight to the recipe Belgian endives are not widely appreciated. It does not look very attractive once it is cooked,…

4 years ago

Cheese biscuits

Straight to the recipe The first recipes for 2019 both concern hot, mulled wine. To accompany these wines, I have…

5 years ago

Vegetarian cutlets from World War I

Straight to the recipe Recently a book was published containing the biography of the Dutch chef Iwan Kriens (1871- ca…

5 years ago

Stock from winter vegetables

A recipe from a century ago I prepared this vegetarian stock for the vegetable cutlets from Iwan Kriens.  The stock…

5 years ago

Tulip bulb soup

Straight to the recipe A recipe from the Hunger Winter '44/'45 I have deliberated for a long time whether to…

6 years ago

Sauce espagnole

Straigh to the recipe The first new historical recipe of 2018 concerns small chicken pies from nineteenth-century French cook Carême.…

6 years ago

A brief pasta history – Part 1

To part two of the history of pasta It has happened to me before. I start working on a historical…

7 years ago

Macaroni Pie

Straight to the recipe This recipe from the cookbook Allied Cookery is a lot like the oven dish from the Dutch Oorlogskookboek ('War cookbook'): pasta,…

7 years ago

Macaroni with tomatoes

Straight to the recipe From the Oorlogs-kookboek ('War-cookbook') from 1918 This is a Dutch recipe from World War I, also known…

7 years ago

‘Gilt poverty’

Straight to the recipe A very simple recipe from 'the first Dutch television cook' The information on this page concerns…

9 years ago