Making 200-Year-Old Mayonnaise – How has it changed?
Mayonnaise (or magnonnaise, as Carême calls it in this recipe from 1828), didn’t really become popular until the early 19th century. First popular in France, by the 1850s, cookbooks in…
Medieval Corned Beef
Corned beef’s popularity fell in medieval Ireland due to most of the good corned beef being sent overseas to England. Pork was cheaper to raise, so many ate bacon and…
Shepherd’s Pie
Cottage pie is made with beef, and shepherd’s pie is made with lamb. Or so they would have you believe. This division between mashed potato-topped meat pies is actually only…
The Original PB&J from 1901
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