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The Cauldron: Princess Rona’s Wintersufel (Bread Pudding with Pears Stewed in Mulled Mead)

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December 23, 2020

So, if you’ve read my free holiday story, Wintersufel, you’ll know all about Princess Rona and the rite-of-passage of a sumptuous dish symbolically served during the Midwinter feast. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s adorable. And there’s a lot of food in it. So here, for the last blog post of this hellish …

The Time Machine: Tea in the Georgian Era

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June 6, 2020

Ahh, a nice cup of tea. What could be more soothing than gentle perfumed steam rising from a tasteful china cup to warm you on a rainy day or accompany a good book? It’s almost hard to imagine the turmoil that went into making it. You can’t make a cup of tea without something reaching …

The Cauldron: Onion Sauce Recipe

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November 21, 2017

There’s a recipe that’s been bugging me for years, a dish teased by Washington Irving a century and a half ago. I’ve been asking my mother for years to make it, and this year we figured it out together. And I present it to you now as an option for that Thanksgiving turkey.