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Showing posts with label 17th century. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 17th century. Show all posts

Sunday, September 24, 2017

17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes

History Extra All images are © Wellcome Images Hannah Bisaker’s puff pastry, 1692 To make puff paist "Take halfe a quort...

Monday, March 20, 2017

When beans were the food of lust

History Extra Illustration by Clair Rossiter The London Cuckold, a ballad printed between c1685 and 1688, describes a man who takes l...

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

How to make 17th-century chocolate for Valentine's Day

History Extra To make Chocolate Take your Choco Nutts and put them over the fire either In earthern pott, or kettle or frying pa...

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

History Extra Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. Contrary to popular belief, Guy Fawkes was not executed for masterminding ...

Friday, December 4, 2015

A brief history of how we fell in love with caffeine and chocolate

History Extra A heated debate in a coffee house on Bride Lane, Fleet Street in London, c1688. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images...

Friday, October 9, 2015

17th-century Great British Bake Off recipes

History Extra All images are © Wellcome Images Hannah Bisaker’s puff pastry, 1692 To make puff paist "Take halfe a quortorh...

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