Recipes

In this section I will share some unusual recipes that I’ve discovered during the course of my research – historical, religious, or otherwise!

Bartlemas Beef – St Bartholomew’s Day

Cake in Quarantine

Chocolate Puffs – 18th Century

Epiphany Cake

Fave dei Morti – All Soul’s Day

Halloween Soul Cakes

Hamantaschen – Purim

Hardanger Lefse – Norway

Hungarian Goulash (July 2018)

Mary Baumfylde’s Biscuits – 17th Century

Parsnip Cake ‘without eyther spice or sugar’ – 1595

Simnel Cake – Mothering Sunday

Torta degli Addobbi – Corpus Christi

Tudor Jumbles

Turrón de Doña Pepa – Peru