Helping you to understand & enjoy 18th & 19th-century food & history.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
Lovely pic from @TheRegencyCook including sweet peas prompted me to share this poem about sweet peas and clouds from my book Sudden Arabesque:
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“Grow a few flowers on my allotment” I thought…
It seems to have got out of hand and I’ve got enough to open a small florist’s shop.
Behold yesterday’s bounty.
Are any of these flowers YOUR favourites?
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
The best bun must be the Swedish semlor, flavoured with cardamom and filled with whipped cream and marzipan. So could legend has it that in 1771 King Adolf Fredrik ate so many that he died!!
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I’m hoping that my posts about historic food will reach you through all the outrage on Twitter/X.
Do you think too that there should be a place for comfort posts about things that unite & don’t divide? Like buns for example?
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Sweltering in the heat of the hottest day I take shelter indoors & take solace from a vase of self-grown sweet Williams, sweet peas & a sprig of lady’s lace.
Are you partial to self-grown flowers?
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Price tickets in shilling and pence from a long lost shop. Discovered in Hastings & now framed in my hallway at home.
Too beautiful not to display. What do you think?
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
May 11
I am in love with this quote from Fahrenheit 451.
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Cake in the sun in Brighton. Those small pleasures that make life worth living.
Would you be tempted?
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
Apr 17
Marlene cooked with this one.
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Apr 13
"A house without books is a poor house.:
Herman Melville
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
Feb 19
Hah. 1845 emoticon, anyone?
"Returned to ⚓️ge by 4 Pm."
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Lunch today - not historic but definitely delightful, I feel.
Brown sushi rice with seaweed & dumplings filled with carrot, mushrooms, ginger, garlic & white miso.
Would you be tucking in?
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Half a grapefruit sprinkled with a little sugar is my breakfast of choice this morning.
Can I tempt you or is grapefruit not your thing? Do let me know.
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Adore these too!
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May I present to you Tortelli Di Marmellata or Italian Breakfast Biscuits?
You could find them in good pastry shops in North Italy during the weeks before lent. Or you could, like me, try making them at home. Filled with jam. Delicious.
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This book I can throughly recommend. So good that I am putting off putting the veg away because I can’t stop reading.
Thought I’d share before I start reading again :)
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The first flowers from my allotment are daffodils. I adore them but I hear that others don’t!
Do tell me. Are you a daffodil lover or a daffodil hater?
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
Dad used to get us to to ‘piggy back’ the last sliver of soap to the new bar, under his ‘waste not want not’ philosophy.
I still do it today… 😇
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May I recommend a holiday to North Cornwall as an act of restoration?
It worked for me.
Tempted or already visited? Do let me know.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
102 Wavertree High Street, Liverpool. The only surviving Georgian shop front in the city, with its bowed shop windows and flanked by Tuscan half columns. Should be Grade l listed.
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