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Gallery of manuscript recipes

I’m finishing up some long neglected work on mustard (coming soon!), but in the meantime, here’s a gallery from some manuscript recipe books that wandered through recently:

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Calves Brains, Syllabub and Bubble and Squeak

From The Anti-Union, February 23, 1799. The Anti-Union was an Irish newspaper published from December 1798 – March 0f 1799 and was hysterically, viciously, relentlessly against the proposed union with Britain. Here a dinner party with many of the main Unionists is described – you need more context than I have to get the whole [...]

Asides

• My latest De Condimentis post - sour cream @hilobrow http://t.co/F98VRdY #
• "But if they want to take my Marmite off me they'll have to wrench it from my cold dead hands." http://bit.ly/jpl6C5 via @stevesilberman #
• Apply directly to warts, lesions, growths; also terrific on sausages and cheese. #mustard #
• Mustard cures scorpion bites, snake venom and poisonous mushrooms. But I may have you sign a waiver before we test it. #
• @MatthewBattles brilliantly broasts a food tale in fat rendered from reality's ample thighs http://bit.ly/gcGYGq @HILOBROW #