"Egg-hot":
A hot drink made of beer, beaten eggs,
sugar and nutmeg.
"Elderflower Champagne":
Elderflower
heads are steeped in a concentrated
sugar solution so that the flavour is extracted
into the sugar solution. Lemon is then added to
the syrup, then the entire mixture is diluted
with water. Such syrups were once commonly used,
for example, using Japanese quince, the syrup
mixed in tea! You won't want plain tea any longer.
"Kalecannon":
There are several alternate spellings, including calcannon,
colcannon, kalkenny. The most likely eytmology is "cál"
(Irish, meaning cabbage), "cannon" (Irish, meaning speckled).
Potatoes mashed with butter and milk, with chopped up cabbage
(or other vegetables such as carrots or turnips), eaten on
Hallowe'en (All Hollowmas or All Hallows Eve, All
Saints' Eve), or "summer's end" in Old Irish.
"Kedgeree":
Flaked fish (Finnan Haddie), boiled rice,
eggs and butter.
"Mangel-wurzel":
A beer can be made from mangel-wurzel, see
("The Practice of Cookery", 1840). Mangel-wurzel
is a root vegetable in the beet family often
used as animal fodder, but eaten by rural farm
folk as well. In German, mangel means chard,
and wurzel means root. In a mangel-wurzel hurling
championship, teams of three hurled mangel-wurzels,
trying to be the closest to a large leafless
mangel-wurzel known as 'the Norman'.
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What was Dickens' view of Southern American
labouring people in 1848 (which likely
included slaves, unless Dickens accepted
the commonly held view that slaves were
not people)? "The labouring people are
especially well cared for and looked after."
See "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens
Entertain at Home", p. 73, in a letter
signed "Major General the Hon. C. Dickens,
(Richmond, Va.)".
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Note that this expresses not only Dickens'
view concerning slavery in the American South,
but also Dickens' disaffection with the views
of the British anti-slavery movement.
"Marrow bones":
Fatty, but very tasty - spread on bread.
"Milk-punch" or
"Chichester milk-punch":
A punch composed of milk, brandy, oranges or
lemons, and sugar.
"Patum peperium":
Anchovy relish, spread on bread (or on puff
pastry, to be fancy).
"Pennywinkle":
Periwinkle.
"Pepper Pot":
Soup of meat, onion, pepper, cayenne.
"Peri-peri":
Worcestershire sauce doctored with hot
red chilli peppers, black pepper and
tabasco sauce. In fact, peri-peri are from
Africa.
"Pettitoes" or
"Pigs' Trotters":
Suckling pigs' feet used as food.
"Polony":
Partially-cooked pork sausage.
"Pudding":
Foods cooked within a crust of dough or a
dumpling (need not be sweet dessert), for
example, "Yorkshire pudding", or "Pease-pudding".
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Various puddings and pies are mentioned in
"Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens Entertain at Home",
including:
"Alma Pudding",
"Almond Pudding",
"Almond Puffs",
"Ananas Pierrette with Kirsch",
"Apple Pasties" (pie),
"Apple Pudding" (pie),
"Apple Snow",
"Apple Tourte",
"Apricot Chiffon Pie",
"Bachelor's Pudding",
"Bakewell Pudding",
"Banana Cream Pie",
"Barberry Tart",
"Bath Pudding-Pie",
"Batter Pudding (baked or boiled)",
"Bavarois aux Fraises",
"Beef-steak Pudding",
"Bread and Butter Pudding",
"Bread Pudding",
"Cabinet Pudding" or "Chancellor's Pudding","whipped cream mixed with brandy",
"Canary Pudding",
"Caramel Custard",
"Christmas Mince Pie",
"Christmas Pudding", with "Brandy Sauce",
"Cold Lemon Pudding",
"College Pudding",
"Damson pie",
"English Apple Pie",
"English Summer Pudding",
"Eve's Pudding",
"Exeter Pudding",
"Frozen Layer Pudding",
"Gooseberry Pudding (baked or boiled)",
"Hominy or Indian Pudding",
"Hunter's Pudding",
"Jam Roll Pudding",
"Lemon Chiffon Pie",
"Lemon Wonder Pudding",
"Manna Kroup Pudding", (Manna Kroup is flour made of wheat and rice)
"Mansfield Pudding",
"Marrow Dumplings",
"Mince Pie",
"Monday's Pudding",
"Nesselrode Pie",
"New Zealand Pavlova",
"Pesche Ripine",
"Pigeon Pie",
"Plum Pudding",
"Pound Pudding",
"Prince Albert's Pudding or Good Pud",
"Queen's Pudding",
"Rice Blancmange",
"Richmond Maids of Honour",
"Roly-Poly Jam Pudding",
"Soufflé Pudding" with "whipped cream mixed with brandy",
"Spanish Pudding",
"Strawberries Romanoff" with "whipped cream mixed with Cointreau",
"Swiss Pudding",
"Yorkshire Tea Cakes",
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"Jane Carlyle (wife of Thomas Carlyle) thought that
Mrs. Dickens's dinner table was rather overdone with
its great dishes of dessert and the vases of artificial
flowers." See "Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens Entertain at Home",
p. 82
"Purl":
Hot beer or ale with gin, sugar and ginger,
sometimes with extract of wormwood (similar to
absinthe).
"Pussyfoot punch":
Fruit juice punch: orange juice, lime juice,
lemon, egg yolk.
"Savoy Biscuits":
Also known as "Ladies' Fingers".
"Scotch Woodcock":
"Patum peperium"
on toast, topped with a heat thickened
cream/egg yolk sauce.
"Sherry cobbler":
A variety of punch.
"Short":
A drink of undiluted alcoholic drink.
"Shrub" or
"Srub":
A drink composed of orange or lemon, sugar,
water, and rum. A different recipe is brandy,
white wine, lemon juice with peel, and sugar.
"Smoking Bishop":
A version of baked apples.
"Sprats":
Fresh sprats dregged in flour, fried on
salt in the oil from the sprats.
"Sugar-crusted gammon":
Gammon covered by sugar and baked.
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