Mr. Woodhouse’s gruel is delicious, simple and nourishing, but it uses more decadent ingredients than Oliver Twist had in the workhouse. As a hypochondriac, Mr. Woodhouse might have preferred the bland version, but this recipe shows a more common dish eaten by the wealthy and middle classes of the period…
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Negus isn’t your usual mulled wine. It’s far superior. Negus is best done nice and slow. That way you can coax all the flavor out of your aromatics and create a true depth of flavor…
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As we’ve seen in both Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, food plays an important role in Dickens’ novels. But these are not the first appearances of gruel and negus in literature. In fact, earlier in the nineteenth century, Jane Austen utilized the dishes to show character development and social convention…
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Great news! We have an article about our white soup posts in the online magazine of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath…
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From what Mr Darcy would have looked like to the cost of a first edition. A few interesting tidbits about everybody’s favourite novel…
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White soup is a grand dish, like the people who ate it, but the ingredients and garnish are simple and delicious. You’ll want to lick the bowl.
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White soup graced the tables of lords, ladies, kings and queens for centuries when Austen immortalised it as the dish of choice at the Netherfield Ball…
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