As a holiday treat, our board president Billie-Ann reads out a Victorian recipe from our collection of historic recipe books as part of our ongoing Roedde Recipe Challenge. From the 1869 edition of Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, here is mulled wine with eggs!
Victorian Drink Recipe
Join our board president Billie-Ann as she reads out Victorian recipes from our collection of historic recipe books as part of our ongoing Roedde Recipe Challenge. From the 1869 edition of Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, here is apple toddy and gin sling! Tag us if you try it out!
Strawberry Shortcake, 1908
Follow along as volunteer Madeline Baldrey teaches us how to make a Strawberry Shortcake from a 1908 edition of Fannie Merritt Farmer’s ‘The Boston Cooking School Cook Book’ (first published in 1896)! Madeline is baking this recipe in the Roedde House Museum’s restored 1893 kitchen.
Mrs. Beeton’s Coffee Cake
Follow along as volunteer Madeline Baldrey teaches us how to make a Coffee Cake from an early edition of Mrs. Beeton’s ‘Cookery Book’. Mrs. Beeton was a popular Victorian-Era authority on household management and made famous by her 1861 publication, “Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management”. Madeline is baking this recipe in the Roedde House Museum’s restored 1893 kitchen.