In this week’s Claire Chats, I talk about something we’ll be adding to the site in September, and, yes, I am going to be working hard in July and August!
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Coming in September!
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Cooking with Claire – Tudor Buttered Sweet Potatoes
In today’s Claire Chats video, I am cooking Buttered Sweet Potatoes from Elinor Fettiplaces’s Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking edited and modernized by Hilary Spurling. The original book was compiled by Lady Elinor Fettiplace from Oxfordshire in 1604 and it’s a treasure trove of Tudor recipes divided into the months of the year. In the October section, I found a recipe entitled “To Butter Potato Roots” and that’s what I have made.
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Claire’s Library Video
A look at some of the Tudor books and sources in Claire’s collection.
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Tudor Dining, Table Manners and Etiquette Video
A video on Tudor dining, table manners and etiquette.
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Tudor Medicine Video
Claire Ridgway talks about Tudor medicine, the four humours and Tudor cures.
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Tudor Accidental Deaths Video
In this week’s Claire Chats video I talk about what historian Steve Gunn unearthed when he investigated coroners’ inquest reports from the Tudor period. Some really sad accidental deaths!
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