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Category Archives: Recipe
White Pot Bread Pudding
White pot is a sweet, buttery, bready, custard type bread pudding originating from 18th century Devon in southwest England. The term white pot simply means white pudding. Recipes for white pot changed very little over the years and between regions. … Continue reading
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No-Knead French Bread
There is a bread baking technique that has been floating around the internet since about 2007, but it’s not a new idea, it’s been around for hundreds of years. A very simple dough with high moisture content that is baked … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, french bread, knead, no knead
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Quaking Pudding
Quaking pudding is much more like the modern day pudding idea that we have in our heads. . It is definitely different than the plum pudding. The ratios are much different, a lot less flour and a lot more liquid … Continue reading
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Tagged boiled pudding, hedgehog, pudding
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Payn Perdu (French Toast)
Who doesn’t like a nice big plate of French toast? Nice firm bread soaked in eggs with milk, maybe garnished with a little bit of fresh fruit, some cinnamon and slathered over the top with maple syrup. Have you ever … Continue reading
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Tagged French Toast, pain perdue
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Simple Apple Pudding
So I haven’t found much about soldiers doing boiled puddings yet, but there is a piece in Joseph Plum Martin’s book about soldiers coming and stealing a woman’s food, including her pudding, bag and all. There are many period recipes … Continue reading
Posted in Bread, Historic Cooking, Ingredients, Recipe, Video
Tagged apple, pudding, simple food
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A Simple Recipe for on the Trail
“To make Norfolk dumplings, mix a good thick batter as for pancakes, take a half a pint of milk, 2 eggs, a little salt, make it into a batter with flour. Have ready a clean saucepan of water boiling into … Continue reading
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Tagged campfire cooking, dumplings, pudding, simple cooking
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Using Leaven
In our last blog, we made leaven. Leaven is old dough that you save back and you use to inoculate a new batch of dough with yeast. We took our leaven and preserved it in salt. Today we’re going to … Continue reading
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Ship’s Bisket
Throughout history, bread has been a vital staple of life. . Archaeological evidence suggests that pre-Neolithic cultures baked very simple flat bread on hot stones and sourdough breads have been made for millennia. First century Romans observed the Celts of … Continue reading
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Tagged hard tack, hardtack, navy, rations, ships bread
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Historic Mixed Grain Bread
Bread was an important food source in the 18th century. Not only was it a staple, in and of itself, but it was also an important ingredient in many other foods. It was known to many as a staff of … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, bread, mixed grains
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