English food writer Eliza Acton’s book Modern Cookery was highly popular over the 19th century. She introduced structure to her recipes before Beeton, though many claim the latter was the first to ...

In the case of ice cream, she wrote two whole cookbooks devoted to the dessert, often suggesting the use of her patented ice cream maker, ice crusher, and ice cave. This ice cream, though churned in a ...

This recipe, taken from a popular, London-based periodical that included items of fashion, literature, current events, recipes and domestic advice, is typical of the 19th-century recipe form.

Some recipes were more extravagant than our typical modern Christmas dinner, like the Yorkshire or Christmas Pie from The Modern Cook by Charles Elme Francatelli (1846), which featured five ...

½ teaspoon baking soda. 2 teaspoon baking powder. 2 large eggs, beaten. 1 pint sour cream. 1 cup dark raisins. 2 teaspoons caraway seeds. Preheat the oven to 350F.

Another of the recipes featured in the book, which as of 2016 had remained in print since its initial publication date, was a concoction for “baked beef tea”.

Audley End’s Victorian cook, Mrs Crocombe, has become a YouTube sensation. Eleanor Doughty signs in for a lesson with her.

Dinner – baked cod in breadcrumbs with shrimp sauce, mash and watercress from Dinner with Dickens Fish Friday was a big tradition in Victorian households, and this recipe, again courtesy of the ...

Next week, the University of Chicago Press will publish a facsimile of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, first published in 1889. Included among ...

Watch the owners of Pleasant House Pub prepare wealthy and working class Victorian meals – and yes, there is a sheep's head. 02/27/2019. Problems playing video?

Charles Darwin is forever linked to evolution, thanks to his groundbreaking book “The Origin of Species.” Now, his wife is making a contribution to evolution of another kind.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the first Christmas card. Over the course of the 19th century, his de ...