This week, we all need a distraction. Too much bad stuff is too close to home for too many of us.<\/p>\n
Food is a fine distraction and a bunch of people in my vicinity are talking about Jane Austen and about Bridgerton, sometimes in the same sentence but mostly in quite different conversations. I happen to have some well-tested recipes from events past. I actually have several cookbooks worth of recipes from Jane Austen\u2019s family and from the south of England at precisely the right time, but the ones I\u2019m giving here are tested and are delicious. They are, in fact, from a cookbook I wrote many, many years ago, when I was younger and more charming. They are in Australian English and I\u2019m quite happy to translate if translation is needed. One dish is for summer and one for winter, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
I hope these dishes improve your week.<\/p>\n
Ice-cream<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n Twelve ripe apricots Pulp<\/span> apricots. Blend with icing sugar and cream. Freeze it then mould it. Keep frozen until ready to serve.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moonshine Pudding<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n A loaf of thinly sliced bread Method:<\/span><\/p>\n Layer the bottom of a baking dish with bread and butter. Add a layer of currants and candied fruit. Add another layer of butter, then more candied fruit. Continue until the dish is full.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Mix cream, egg yolks, nutmeg, and sugar. Pour the mixture on the pudding. Bake it in a moderate oven for three quarters of an hour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And, if things get too bad, have this for breakfast and then go back to sleep:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Windsor Syllabub<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n 1 bottle of sweet sherry (750 ml) Whisk<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Add 1.200 l milk and 300 ml cream <\/span><\/span>(thick, but not thickened)<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Mix well and serve.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, we all need a distraction. Too much bad stuff is too close to home for too many of us. Food is a fine distraction and a bunch of people in my vicinity are talking about Jane Austen and about Bridgerton, sometimes in the same sentence but mostly in quite different conversations. I happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[79,52,1177,1176,76,1175,390],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cooking","tag-food","tag-historical-recipes","tag-jane-austen","tag-mental-health","tag-regency","tag-self-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>375 g icing sugar
\n<\/span>600 ml cream<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Method:<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Butter
\n<\/span>Currants
\n<\/span>Glac\u00e9 cherries
\n<\/span>Candied pineapple
\n<\/span>Other glac\u00e9 fruit<\/span>900 ml cream
\n<\/span>6 egg yolks
\n<\/span>\u00bd nutmeg (grated)
\n<\/span>Sugar<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span>6 dessert spoons sugar (or thereabouts)
\n<\/span><\/span>1 \u00bd teaspoons nutmeg
\n<\/span><\/span>1 teaspoon of cloves<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n