As we approach Christmas, we at The Archive were curious to uncover Christmas recipes from the past through our newspaper collection. Would we find them to be similar to our usual Christmas feasting fare? Or would the festive food of days gone by have fallen out of favour? Well, we’ve sourced 22 delicious and unusual Christmas recipes from our newspapers to help us answer these questions. From herring pies to plum puddings, from orange cakes to mince pies, we will …
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This week at The Archive we’re delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, as we look back to the launch of Worcestershire sauce by another duo, John Lea and William Perrins, on 28 August 1837. Meanwhile, from Ballymena to Bognor Regis, from Eastbourne to Epworth, from Skegness to South Shields, we have updated 21 of our existing titles from across England and Northern Ireland. In all, we’ve added 279,027 brand new pages to The Archive …
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The weather is starting to warm up, and the last thing most of us want to do is stand in a hot kitchen cooking. This month we are taking a look at fresh, crisp salads. After starting this exploration, I realised how little I knew about the fine art of salad creation and presentation. Surprisingly, there were many full articles dedicated to salads as opposed to our other themes: cakes and biscuits. Salad creation should be taken seriously; the newspapers …
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This month we are introducing a new blog theme: Cookery Corner. Whether you want sweet or savoury; an easy 30-minute meal or an extravagant four-course dinner, the British Newspaper Archive holds all your culinary desires. Each month we will dip into through the thousands of recipes found in the British and Irish newspapers while focusing on a specific topic. Sweet Cakes We thought the best way to start, of course, is with cakes! This month, we discovered numerous recipes for …