How to Taste Wine, c. 1305
Some say that when the northern winds blow, wine is most genuine and reliable…
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How to Prepare a Humble Feast, 1638
Now for a more humble feast, or an ordinary proportion…
How to Survive the Winter, c. 1200
Winter is damp and cold. We should turn to food…
How to Cook All the Birds, 1849
Take a fine large olive, stuffed with capers and anchovies…
How to Make Good Coffee, 1895
COFFEE THAT IS GOOD. To make good coffee is apparently not so simple…
How to Make an Eel Pie, 1465
Boil for a while an eel which has been skinned…
How to Make an Apple Toddy, 1869
Apple Toddy. Two wine glasses of ‘Apple Jack’; one tablespoonful…
How to Eat in Autumn, 1600
Autumne beginneth, when the sunne entreth the first degree of Libra…
How to Use Chocolate, 1672
It revives the drooping spirits, and chears those that are ready to faint…
How to Avoid Melons, 1565
When you consider the small size of the root, and the great size of the stalk…
How to Make Artichoke Ice Cream, 1768
Artichoke ice cream. Take three or four artichokes, of which you will use only the bottoms…
How to Make Turnip Wine, 1796
To make Turnip Wine. Take a good many turnips, pare, slice, and put them in a cyder-press…
How to Use Bacon, c. 530
At this point I will explain how bacon may be eaten to the best effect…
How to Make Snail Bread, 1685
A sort of Bread, of which a Mouthful can maintain a Man eight daies…
How to Choose Honey, 4th century
We recall that in all treatments the honey which is most effective is that in which there are dead bees…
How to Discuss Meat Carving, 1673
In cutting up all manner of small Birds, it is proper to say, Thigh them…
How to Make Fake Bacon, 1687
To make Frayse appear like Rashers of Bacon. Take of fine Flowre half a peck…
How to Stockpile Lobsters, 1660
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Lobster (1781)
How to Make a Cooked Bird Sing, c. 1450
To make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter…
How to Make a Hedgehog, 1725
To make a Hedge-Hog. Take a Quart of New Cream and boil it, then beat an Egg and put into it…
How to Make a Pumpkin Pie, 1670
To make a Pompion-Pie. Having your Paste ready in your Pan…
How to Use Tomatoes, 1794
Love-Apples… The fruit of the wild sort is no bigger than a cherry…
How to Make French Toast, 1660
French Toasts. Cut French Bread, and toast it in pretty thick toasts on a clean gridiron…
How to Slim Down in Fourteen Days, 1595
An excellent and approved thing to make them slender, that are grosse…
How to Eat Seasonally, 1746
Experience teacheth, that Hens are best in January; Eggs in February…
How to Make Macaroni, 15th century
Sicilian Macaroni. Make a dough of the whitest flour, one egg white and rosewater…
How to Make Coffee, 1685
We must now particularize the preparation of this Drink made with Coffee…
How to Make Waffles, 1714
The Right Dutch-Wafer. Take four Eggs, and beat them very well…