Food & drink takeaways – 14 September
A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Apple tart with Jane Austen, Matrimony pudding on a 19th century household menu and Queen’s Pudding on a Jubilee menu at sea.
Just some of the sweet delights for which we can thank 14 September.
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Food in diaries and journals
1813
“Mde Bigion was below dressing us a most comfortable dinner of soup, fish, bouillee, partridges, and an apple tart {header photo} which we sat down to soon after five. . . At seven we set off in a coach for the Lyceum, were at home again in about four hours and a half; had soup and wine and water, and then went to our holes” – English writer Jane Austen describes in a letter to her sister Cassandra the dinner and supper she had upon arrival at her brother Henry’s house in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, on this day.
Menus from History Vol 2 by Janet Clarkson, Greenwood Press
Dishes of the day
1871
Recommended day’s menu for two on 14 September in Cre-Fydd’s Family Fare or Young Housewife’s Daily Assistant, published by Simpson, Marshall and Co, 1871 is scalloped cod, potted tongue and honey for breakfast; curried cod with rice followed by fricasseed tripe, roast pigeons, beans and potatoes for dinner. Suggested dessert is Matrimony pudding
1977
"Queen’s Pudding or Queen of Puddings is a 17th century milk, breadcrumb and egg pudding. It was given this particular name by the chefs at Buckingham Palace during the reign of Queen Victoria. I found it on a special Silver Jubilee Dinner Menu on the Windsor Castle on Wednesday, 14th September, 1977."
Food birthdays
1917
American chef of Chinese cuisine, author of the classic Joyce Chen Cook Book
1966
English food critic, journalist, broadcaster, Masterchef, The Kitchen Cabinet and author The Man Who Ate the World, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, My Dining Hell
1981
American chef, author and critic
