Dinner Historical Recipes

"This recipe for Scotch Collops appears in a late 17th-century English manuscript, a time when domestic cookery books wer..."

"This recipe hails from late 17th-century England, a time when pies were lavish centerpieces at the table and seafood was..."

"This recipe hails from around 1700, when oysters were a prized and widely enjoyed ingredient in Britain. Pickling was a ..."

"This recipe for Olus Molle—literally 'soft vegetables'—hails from a cookery collection attributed to (pseudo-)Apicius in..."

"This recipe comes from the kitchen of Mrs. Knight, who flourished around 1740, in a prosperous mid-18th-century British ..."

"This recipe comes from an early printed Italian manuscript, attributed to the legendary Roman gourmet Apicius, and is pa..."

"This recipe comes from Ann Smith, dating to 1698, a period when English cooks were keen on replicating continental delic..."

"This recipe hails from early 18th-century England, around 1720, a time when fish preserving methods like potting were es..."

"This recipe is attributed to Elizabeth Langley, writing in 1757, a period when fricassee dishes were the epitome of refi..."

"This Scotch Scallops recipe hails from a manuscript by Constance Hall dating to 1672, in the midst of the Restoration er..."

"This recipe comes from Ann Smith’s 1698 manuscript, a period just before the dawn of the English Enlightenment and on th..."

"This recipe hails from an early 18th-century English manuscript, a time when fricassees (or 'frigacies,' as styled here)..."