https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/24/thomas-newingtons-recipes-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/24/thomas-newingtons-recipes-i/#comment-1783612 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:59:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204162#comment-1783612 Oh my goodness, I don’t really fancy eating or drinking much of this! I have been researching my Huguenot ancestors from the late seventeenth century and never really thought about their diet. I had guessed it was mainly bread, cheese, pottage, and wine or beer, which I could stomach.
Rubbing a chicken’s bare bottom on your smallpox pustules does rather make you wonder what research was conducted that led to this?!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/24/thomas-newingtons-recipes-i/#comment-1783025 Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:48:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204162#comment-1783025 Fantastic illustrations. Think I’ll pass on trying out any of the recipes though!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/24/thomas-newingtons-recipes-i/#comment-1782868 Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:46:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204162#comment-1782868 Anyone attempting to hold down a live pig’s head in a bucket of water is doomed to failure, if not serious injury! (even allowing for the smaller size of pigs in the 17th and 18th century).

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