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Read more about the article A Mrs Beeton Recipe: Nut! Sandwiches!

A Mrs Beeton Recipe: Nut! Sandwiches!

  • Post published:August 20, 2020
  • Post category:Food/History
  • Reading time:2 mins read

Say hi to the grossest historical recipe I've ever made! A little while ago, I was talking to a friend about the "Vegetarian Cookery" section of my c.1938 copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management. I told them that I was pleasantly surprised at some of these recipes.⁠ Then I saw…

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A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

  • Post published:March 16, 2015
  • Post category:Food/History/Reading
  • Reading time:3 mins read

Last year, I found a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management in a secondhand book store, and snapped it up eagerly. It isn't obvious when it was printed. A previous owner wrote her name and the year 1944, but certain things made me believe this was already a few years old when…

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I’m Samantha Garner, author of The Quiet is Loud, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Canadian of mixed Filipino-Finnish background, my character-driven fantasy and sci-fi novels explore identity and belonging. View The Quiet is Loud on the StoryGraph, Bookshop.org, and Goodreads, or click the image below to learn more about it, and where to buy.

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