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FOOD AND DRINK
A taste of Tudor
Maid of Honour Cakes
Henry VIII was never one to do things by Ingredients
halves. Not unlike his waistline in later 1/2 pt milk
years, the king’s feasts were always just 2 tb bread crumbs
that little bit bigger. 4 oz butter
Try this lot for size. Roe deer, sturgeon 2 oz almonds, ground
cooked in parsley and vinegar, two 1 oz sugar
goslings, 12 chickens, 12 pigeons, six 3 eggs
young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a 1 grated lemon zest
capon, wild boar – and that’s before we Puff paste
start on the puddings. Veggie dish? Forget
Method
it. For Henry VIII, a sensible diet meant
Boil the milk and bread
plucking feathers off the chicken before
crumbs and let them stand
Picture courtesy of Historic Royal Palaces
eating.
for 10 minutes. Add the butter, almonds, and sugar. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
So, as we celebrate the 500th anniversary
Put a dessert spoonful of the mixture in the centre of the pastry and bake until
of the big feller’s accession to the throne,
golden brown.
why not dazzle your guests with your
very own Henrician feast? Sheep’s feet
should do the trick, followed by a special
Sheep’s feet
Tudor treat: Maid of Honour Cakes.
Legend has it that Henry saw his second
To fricate Sheeps-feet
wife, Anne Boleyn, partaking of these Take Sheeps-feet, slit the bone, and pick them very clean, then put them in a
scrumptious delicacies with her maids – frying-pan, with a ladlefull of strong broth, a piece of butter, and a little salt. After
hence the name. Having sampled them they have fryed a while, put to them a little parsley, green chibals, a little young
himself, he locked away the recipe in an speremint and tyme, all shred very small, and a little beaten pepper. When you
iron box in Richmond Palace. Word is that think they are fryed almost enough, have a lear made for them with the yolks of
he also imprisoned the baking maid, thus two or three eggs, some gravy of mutton, a little nutmegg, and juyce of a lemon
ensuring cakes on demand. But, to adapt a wrung therein, and put this lear to the sheeps feet as they fry in the pan, then toss
phrase, don’t try that at home! them once or twice, and put them forth into the dish you mean to serve them in.
a73 For Tudor fare:
www.the-tudors.org.uk
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