Max Miller investigates the contentious history behind Vienna's famous chocolate dessert, testing a 19th-century recipe against modern versions. This culinary journey explores a long-standing legal battle over the official "original"…
Max Miller recreates route cakes, a dry 19th-century treat popular at hectic social gatherings known as routes. Drawing on historical recipes from the Regency era, this episode explores the etiquette…
Max Miller recreates a historical recipe for Victoria sandwiches from Isabella Beeton’s 1861 book, Book of Household Management. The episode explores the origins of afternoon tea, tracing its custom to…
a 100 year old recipe, the history of birthday cake, and why we put candles on them.
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Marie Antoinette loved dessert, and even the water she drank was sweetened; she would keep pounded sugar on hand and stir in a few spoonfuls before drinking it. The daughter…
Medieval Cherry Cheesecake
This 1914 recipe makes a kind of pecan custard for the filling. It’s smooth, not gelatinous and gooey like modern pecan pie, and isn’t as sickly sweet. You get way…
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