A Brace of Pheasant: Farmhouse Christmas Dinner in England in the 1950s
All morning the smell of pheasant roasting had me hovering in the kitchen. Now I was ready. On my plate was a perfect slice of white breastmeat (with a couple…
Read moreThe Milking Stool and the Next Month
This is one of the family milking stools. Yes, it’s as short as it looks, just about twleve inches high, just right to reach a cow’s udder. By the…
Read moreCodswallop. Something Fishy from the British Library
“A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the…
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