Imagine a street rowed with terraced housing. It's evening time. Puddles of gaslight stretch along the street from end to end. Push open the wrought iron gate of one of the houses and peep in the kitchen window. Look through the lace curtains. See the family at the kitchen table. Look at their faces and the food by the flickering candlelight.
The table creaks and groans laden with good food. Look at the big pot of food simmering on the fire. This is a cosy warm room of tastes and smells. Smell the gaslight and the turf on the fire. Smell the vegetables and the grains. This is also a room where one taste and smell is missing.
Look closely at the plates and dishes. No meat and no fish. No meat and no fish smells. Gasp! Vegetarians in Victorian Britain? Well actually, yes!
Yes, ordinary Joe Soaps in Victorian times were leading a vegetarian life. My new ebook, Antique Vegetarian Recipes from the Victorian Era (a selection of vegetarian recipes in use in the UK in the 1800s) is stuffed with 230 vegetarian recipes used by vegetarians in the UK over 100 years ago!
So what do antique recipes have to do with you and I?
Well, I've been a vegetarian for nearly 20 years. If you're like me then you'll know that sometimes you can get into a bit of a cooking rut. You cook the same small selection of dishes over and over again. You loose a bit of your enthusiasm for food and there's no pizzazz in your cooking.
Or maybe, you're not a vegetarian. Maybe you eat a wide range of food and enjoy vegetarian cuisine as well as any other cuisine. Maybe you enjoy experimenting and you're always on the look out for new and interesting recipes.
Maybe you're just plain curious about what Victorian vegetarians ate. What sort of recipes they used. What sort of ingredients they had in their food cupboards.
In any case, I think you'll agree that Antique Vegetarian Recipes from the Victorian Era sounds mighty interesting.
There are plenty of recipes, cookbooks and cuisines out there. But, this ebook is truly different. So, why don't you decide to be a little different from everyone else? Why not take a break from the cuisines of here and now. Why don't you choose to look back to recipes in use over 100 years ago? Why not look to what our ancestors were doing in Victorian Britain?
So just what were our Victorian ancestors cooking up on the vegetarian front? Well, my ebook contains chapters on soups, grain dishes, egg dishes, salad, miscellaneous main courses, fritters, potato dishes, sauces, jellies, jams, creams, custards and ices. 230 recipes in all!
To whet your appetite, click here to view the recipe for hotch-potch soup and click here to view the recipe for egg and potato balls.
In Antique Vegetarian Recipes from the Victorian Era you will discover a treasure trove of vegetarian recipes, a new (or should that be old?!) and fascinating slant on vegetarian cookery, and the sort of recipes that your Great Aunt Maud used to make.
My ebook only contains recipes in use in the 1800s. You will be amazed at the wide variety of foodstuffs available in the 1800s. I have not augmented any of these recipes with ingredients available in the UK of today. I have meticulously stuck to just those ingredients available in the Victorian era.
I have, however, written these recipes to take account our modern day appliances. Remember, these recipes come from a time when people in the UK did not have electricity, some people had gas, and many people cook over open fires! I don't imagine that there many people nowadays that would want to heat the kitchen shovel and use it to brown the top of a dish!
And what foodstuffs were available to Victorian vegetarians?
Click below to find out more.
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