Caterer and Hotelkeeper – 9535
1. Although Mrs Beeton is now far more widely known, Mrs Glasse, who reigned in 1760s, is the author of many of the recipes that Mrs Beeton also included in her repertoire.
2. A thick potage was regular fare, made with whatever vegetables could be gathered. Large hunks of bread, known as sops, were added to the soup at the last moment before serving.
3. Most rural families kept a pig at the bottom of the garden. It would be so fat it could not walk when the day of slaughter, St Thomas's Day, arrived. The meat would last throughout the year.
4. (c) The recipe can also be prepared without eggs, and using pearl barley. It may also include flour, sugar, currants and sometimes saffron. The poor often ate the basic mixture for breakfast.
5. (b) In many parts of the country, beastings, a very creamy milk drawn from the cow shortly after calving, was an essential ingredient of all baked puddings.
6. The word fairing was used to describe trinkets sold at fairs. The term was extended to mean sweets, cakes and biscuits sold from street stalls.
7. The "love apples" of the 16th century are today's tomatoes. They were not popular in England as a food until the 19th century, when greenhouses became available for cultivating the fruit.
8. These yeast rolls are cold and sandwiched with the filling before being served. When the jam is substituted with treacle they are known as "Thunder and lightning".
9. This dish, which may also have included a good bunch of chopped parsley, was a pasty. It was notable in that it was shaped like a bishop's hat.
10. Particularly chicken pie in Cornwall, and steak and kidney in Devon, were finished by pouring warmed clotted cream through the pie vent.
11. Today the ingredients normally used are cream mixed with sherry or wine. In the original recipe the mixture was frothed by squirting the milk directly from the cow's udder into the alcohol.
12. If the meat had been eaten, single or double Gloucester cheese spread with mustard and mixed with ale would be melted in the oven. This mixture, spread on toast, was a favourite.
13. Also famous for the Banbury nursery rhyme, this Oxfordshire town is noted for its oval Banbury cakes, the filling being mincemeat.
14. Gingerbread men, known in Hampshire as husbands, were a favourite biscuit sold at fairs. Heart-shaped gingerbreads were traditional on Valentine's Day, and these were normally gilded.
