Negus from the Mansfield Park ball
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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Food in Jane Austen and Charles Dickens
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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