Edwardian food

Prepare a traditional 10-course Edwardian meal fit for the Crawleys of Downton Abbey with a guide to every part of these formal meals.

Host a "Downton Abbey" party with these Edwardian-style recipes

Read Recipes from an Edwardian Country House by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall with a free trial. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android.

A recipe for Raspberry Meringue inspired by Mrs. Patmore from season one of Downton Abbey.

Epicurian miscellany: A review of Edwardian Glamour Cooking (Without Tears) by Oswell Blakeston. Despite its title, this little book is not a tie-in to either True Blood or Twilight. Nor is it quite the book it claims to be, for Edwardian Glamour Cooking is fixated, not on the foodways of Edwardian Britain in any comprehensive sense, but rather on the mortar and pestle. Then again nobody else has shown much interest in Edwardian cooking over the last century, let alone written a monograph on…

The 13-course Christmas meal, which would have been served at posh family Christmas dos, would have taken a team of 15 working 12 hours each, resulting in an impressive 180 hours of labour.

The 13-course Christmas meal, which would have been served at posh family Christmas dos, would have taken a team of 15 working 12 hours each, resulting in an impressive 180 hours of labour.