Original Victorian and Edwardian Recipes
Restored To Modern Day English
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“I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys cooking wholesome food and likes to look after the pennies”
“This recipe book takes me back in time to some of the lovely food my dear mother used to cook me when I was a child.”
For obvious reasons we cannot publish all the recipes contained in the book but we will publish a few on this page and change them periodically so keep checking back.
For each recipe we have included a short description and below this there is a link to open the actual page of the book with the recipe contained. The link uses Adobe PDF so if you do not have this installed on your computer click here to install it. Don’t worry it is free.
A simple but very tasty recipe using commonly found ingredients. Note that Big Al halved the original ingredients as they were for approximately 72 biscuits. This indicates the size of the dinner parties held.
In Victorian times we doubt that Piccalilli was available in jars. Lilly’s recipe is extremely tasty. “Chop up all the vegetables fairly small, leave for 24 hours.
In Victorian times, as when we were all younger, there was no waste. Every morsel of food was used. Roman pie is a classic dish that allows us to use all the left-overs but produce a wonderful tasty dish.
