As a special Christmas bonus for all Tudor and Stuart fans, here’s a video of a talk that Toni Mount made a few days ago. It’s all about the food that the Tudors and Stuarts ate and the way they ate it – a fascinating talk.
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Toni Mount talks about Tudor and Stuart dining
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The Sweet Makers – A Tudor Treat
Did any of you manage to watch this documentary last week? It’s part 1 of a 3 part series looking at sweet makers in different historical periods.
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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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