English Farmhouse Meals ca 1950
For those of you who have asked about the confusing terminology of English meals, the fact is that they have shifted constantly in the last century or so and are…
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Whenever I plan a tea, the problem of bread arises. Bread is central to English tea. You need a good old-fashioned English loaf for slicing thick for hot toast or…
Read moreWhere Did the English Country House Breakfast Come From?
The country house breakfast was at its height from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second World War, although its roots went back before that. In a house the saize of…
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