Where can I find authentic British recipes from centuries gone by?

Nothing more modern than 1930s, but from any time upto then.





Posh nosh or peasant dishes.Where can I find authentic British recipes from centuries gone by?
Mrs Beatons Cook Book is the bible of British cooking and is a wonderful history as well.





Although I rarely visit it these days, I still use her recipes for yorkshire pudding, blancmange and jugged hare as a matter of corse. (little joke there)





You will find a huge amount of information on native herbs and also the truth behind the competition between English and French cooking!


It is a fact the French cooking owes far more to the English than vice versa!Where can I find authentic British recipes from centuries gone by?
Try Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (aka Mrs Beeton's Cookbook). It contains hundreds of British recipes of old. The book was published in 1861 but the recipes were most probably handed down from the decades and centuries before then.


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