Helping you to understand & enjoy 18th & 19th-century food & history.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
C. S. Lewis introduced The Chronicles of Narnia with a message to his goddaughter:
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Each year I return to this @LandmarkTrust flat in Penzance & wake up early so I can see the sun rise over the sea from this attic window.
Cannot wait to return.
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My latest purchase. An engaging read.
Have you read this book already? Does it look interesting? Do let me know.
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A late summer trip to my allotment just now revealed all of these beauties.
Which would be your favourite? And any suggestions on what to do with my harvest?
Do let me know.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
Delighted to welcome @TheRegencyCook, to my Serve It Forth session, Food on the Move: Travel and Dining in the Regency.
We’ll follow the Regency traveller from inns to country houses, with historical food along the way.
17 Oct, 2–3pm. Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-fo…
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To & tailing. Self-grown gooseberries on their way to my freezer for enjoying later.
Are you a gooseberry lover too?
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Your help is needed.
I'm transcribing some family history and my grandparents address in the Census of 1921 is fiendishly difficult to read.
Can you work out what is BEFORE Teats Hill, Plymouth? A number?
All guesses welcome.
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Paul Couchman - Regency Cook retweeted
The Box in Plymouth - another of the shortlisted museums for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award! @theboxplymouth @artfund
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I may have gone slightly overboard with my flower planting this year but may I share today’s informal arrangement with you?
Sweet peas, ranunculus, roses & scabious fight for your attention.
Do any of these appeal to you? Do let me know.
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From the garden. Ranunculus, rose & sweet peas. If only you could smell those beauties!!
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Eighteenth century clothing ideas found in the American museum in Bath. So tempting...
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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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