Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
The TLS Podcast
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The History of Food, Isn't It?
I was really struck by how much is about what's left over in this cookbook. And we tend to think of it being a very meat-heavy diet that we ate 200 years ago. Meat was extremely sparingly eaten, probably only once a week for people who weren't rich. So things like dripping, which was the leftover fat from the roast on Sunday,. Sour milk has to be used up, vegetable peelings, turnip tops. It's probably the sort of cooking we should all be doing right now - cutting down on waste and saving money.
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