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    The Accomplisht Cook is an English cookery book published by the professional cook Robert May in 1660, and the first to group recipes logically into 24...
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    England. He is best known for writing and publishing the 1660 cookbook The Accomplisht Cook. It was the first major book of English recipes, and contains...
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    | Felicity Cloake's masterclass". The Guardian. 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2022-03-10. "Mango Fool". The accomplisht cook, by Robert May, 1660-1685 Hughes,...
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    with hearbes and spices. Robert May's The Accomplisht Cook was published in 1660 when he was 72 years old. The book included a substantial number of recipes...
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    to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the term "hochepot" dates from the 13th century and means "shake pot", because the cook must shake the pot...
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    related to the word dough. In the variant name spotted dog, dog is a variant form of dough. The dish is first attested in Alexis Soyer's The Modern Housewife...
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    served with beer; the saltiness of the cheese was noted to enhance the "relish of the beer." Beer, bread, and cheese have been combined in the English diet...
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    meat alternative. The dish is usually served with onion gravy, but may also include fried onions and peas. This dish, even when cooked at home, may be thought...
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    ingredients cooked or eaten together". Food portal Cranachan Fruit fool Pavlova Darra Goldstein; Sidney Mintz; Michael Krondl; Laura Mason (2015). The Oxford...
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  • books. The first, "Just Food", was published by Headline in 1999. He appeared in BBC's Ready Steady Cook over 200 times between 1996 and 2010 until the show's...
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    cooks in northern England (Yorkshire) devised a means of making use of the fat that dropped into the dripping pan to cook a batter pudding while the meat...
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    Jellied eels (category Food and drink introduced in the 18th century)
    a traditional English dish that originated in the 18th century, primarily in the East End of London. The dish consists of chopped eels boiled in a spiced...
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    this recipe from the cook of the imperial court in Vienna. She also included "filet à la Wellington" in the menus proposed for the "exquisite dinners"...
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    aged 6 to 12 months. The rind is reddish-orange with a powdery mould on it. Since the 18th century, it has been coloured orange by the addition of annatto...
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    spices, and often cooked with a bacon or ham joint. A common dish in the north-east of England, it is consumed to a lesser extent in the rest of Britain...
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    Cobbler (food) (category Cuisine of the Southern United States)
    typically cooked on the stovetop, or in an iron skillet or pan, with the dough on top in the shape of dumplings. They reportedly take their name from the grunting...
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    Dorset and Gloucestershire, each claiming to be the original source. It remains a popular weekend tea cake. The main ingredients are freshly rendered lard...
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    1960) also known as Michel Roux Jr., is an English-French chef. He owned the 2 Michelin-starred restaurant Le Gavroche in London, which was opened by...
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    recipe". BBC Food. Cloake, Felicity (14 April 2011). "How to cook perfect sticky toffee pudding". The Guardian. "Felicity Cloake's sticky toffee pudding". House...
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    in honor of the hotel and the word glory was appended to the name of the dish. At some point in the 1920s, the dish was introduced into the United Kingdom...
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    Pie and mash (category Street food in the United Kingdom)
    European eels cooked in gelatine also became a common worker's meal, since eels were one of the few forms of fish that could survive in the heavily polluted...
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    Thomas Dawson's 1585 book of English cookery The Good Huswifes Jewell. This flavoured thick cream was cooked 'gently like a custard, and was grand enough...
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    bird is stuffed into another larger bird and so on sixteen times more, then cook in an open flame for 24 hours.). Also it is generally agreed to have been...
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    recipe was described as "English cooked-again stewed meat" (lesso rifatto all'inglese) or "toad in the Hole", in the first book of modern Italian cuisine...
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    citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II". The name The Forme of Cury is generally used for the family of recipes rather than...
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    around the meat itself, absorbing the juices and fat directly (as in a traditional Cornish under-roast). However, many cooks prefer to cook the potatoes...
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    from cooked potatoes and cabbage, mixed together and fried. The food writer Howard Hillman classes it as one of the "great peasant dishes of the world"...
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    retained in a marmalade. The Romans learned from the Greeks that quinces slowly cooked with honey would "set" when cool. The Apicius gives a recipe for...
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    retirement from the kitchen in 1999, and cooked his final meal for a paying customer on 23 December at the Oak Room. He also returned all his Michelin...
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    Steak Diane (category Table-cooked dishes)
    from the seasoned pan juices. It was originally cooked tableside and sometimes flambéed. It was most likely invented in London in the 1930s. From the 1940s...
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