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Whole Woolton Pie with a browned pastry lid and three vents in a deep black handled Dutch oven.

Vintage · Main Dishes · 3 hr 15 min total

Woolton Pie with a Pastry Lid (1941 Adaptation)

Potatoes, carrots, swede and cauliflower beneath a whole-wheat potato-pastry lid, with brown gravy served alongside.

Sweet potato pie with one slice served on a blue plate and an orange behind it.

Vintage · Baking & Desserts · 3 hr 30 min total

Abby Fisher's Orange-Scented Sweet Potato Pie (1881)

A single-crust sweet potato pie with orange juice and zest, adapted from Abby Fisher's 1881 filling and butter-and-lard pastry.

Four hard-boiled egg halves topped with finely textured tan pine-nut sauce.

Vintage · Snacks & Dips · 35 min total

Roman Eggs with Pine Nut Sauce

Hard-boiled egg halves topped with ground pine nuts, honey, vinegar, fish sauce, and a little celery seed.

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Golden cocktails, an open recipe book and marmalade on a sunlit kitchen table

Vintage · Cocktails

Beyond the Speakeasy: Five Cocktails from a 1925 London Drinks Book

Marmalade, tea and a simple preserving jar: a look inside a 1925 London book by Nina Toye and A. H. Adair and the pleasures of mixing at home.

Equal-size measuring cups of flour and sugar beside a cream kitchen scale

Kitchen know-how · Measurements

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Sherry Cobbler with fine ice and fruit beside a sugar-rimmed Brandy Crusta with lemon peel.

Vintage · Cocktails

Cobbler, Crusta, Julep and Rickey: How Historic Cocktails Use Ice

Explore how the Cobbler, Crusta, Julep and Rickey use ice differently, with four modern adaptations from Thomas and Johnson.

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Selected pancake ingredients, scaled from four servings to three.
Ingredient	Original · For 4	For 3 · Metric
All-purpose flour	2 cups	190 g
Large eggs	2	1½
Melted butter	¼ cup	43 g

Two-layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on top and sides and a cut wedge on the stand.

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