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Regency Dish: A Forced Cabbage

By Anne | February 16, 2021 - 7:02 am |March 2, 2021 Regency Dish

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From the 1803 edition of The Art of Cookery, a receipt for forced cabbage. This Youtube tutorial shows the cabbage farce or forced cabbage step by step. Continue →

Regency Dish: Sauce for Pheasants, Partridges and Everything Else

By Anne | November 18, 2020 - 11:21 am |December 9, 2020 Regency Dish

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This recipe for a sauce for birds appeared in the 1803 The Art of Cookery. Found in the French cooking chapter.

Regency Dish: A Cheap and Excellent Currie

By Anne | April 4, 2019 - 6:42 am |April 24, 2019 Regency Dish

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Appeared in the April 1809 Lady’s Monthly Museum. I found a few additional curry recipes in A New System of Domestic Cookery: Founded Upon Principles Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: French Chefs, Gender and Celebrity

By Anne | December 22, 2018 - 7:40 am |January 8, 2019 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Dish, Regency Household

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Regency Reader Question For the aristocracy, it was apparently all the rage to have a male French chef. However, the references I’ve found said that Continue →