Charles Darwin Recipes

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this “recipe book” of Emma Darwin awhile ago, before work got crazy. It’s not just your average cookbook, it’s a documentation of family life in the Darwin household in the middle of the 19th century. It is filled with reproductions of handwritten recipes and beautiful botanical illustrations, as well as interesting anecdotes and little details about daily life, such as what time the family ate lunch and dinner and how they were “lax” because they didn’t require the children’s nurse to wear the “right cap”. Another bit of interesting trivia is that both Emma and Charles Darwin were grandchildren of Josiah Wedgewood. Which is more intriguing — the fact that the father of evolutionary theory had a connection to the famous Wedgewood pottery or the fact that he and his wife were first cousins — I cannot say!

The recipes, which have been tested by the authors, Dusha Bateson and Weslie Janeway, give us modern day folk a taste of Victorian England via one of its most esteemed families. The historical notes are fascinating, and I found myself imagining what it must be like to live in Emma Darwin’s world. ldren and a dozen servants living with them as well as numerous visits from family and friends. I imagine it was a full time job keeping track of the household accounts, the garden, and the livestock!

I hadn’t known that Charles Darwin had a rather delicate constitution and suffered from poor digestion. The recipe book is filled with rich Victorian age food that is comforting and soothing, such as puddings (apparently Emma’s original recipe book has more than sixty puddings!) and many other dishes with cream and butter. Preserving and pickling was quite common at the time, and Emma’s notebook has instructions for preserving eggs, curing beef, pickling, etc. There is a chapter in the recipe book on preserves that I am looking to make use of in the future (the Quince Jelly sounds wonderful).

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