Classic recipes for every kitchen.
Old recipes from old cookbooks, translated into plain modern language.
Translated Recipe A Yorkshire Pudding in 4 Steps Hannah Glasse’s 1747 recipe, decoded from its original instructions into something you can actually make today. Jump to the recipe Before Yorkshire pudding became the crispy, golden companion to every Sunday roast in Britain, it was something …
Time for dessert! This “Bisket” recipe is a biscuit in the British English sense. In the U.S., we would call these babies cookies–drop cookies to be precise:
I assume this is just a technique, rather than the authors being confused that they were somehow creating olives. Because, friends, as you can see, no actual olives are involved:
As the authors of 1737’s The Whole Duty of a Woman put it, “A Salpicon is a Sort of Ragoo.” Bless them and their phonetic spelling of ragout, but look at this pantry emptier of a recipe:
This recipe from The Whole Duty of a Woman… has us wondering if anything is real. Is it all a farce? Even the beef? Those ‘Where’s the Beef?’ ladies from the Wendy’s commercials would love this one:
For this one, we’re digging into 1737’s The Whole Duty of a Woman: Or, an Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex… What do they mean by patty? Like a burger? And why is it petty? Well, let’s take a look: