Special Postbag Edition #7

It’s time for the now traditional end-of-season postbag episode of The British Food History Podcast, where I (attempt to) answer your questions, read out your comments and mull over your queries. Several photos and illustrations are mentioned in this episode: to see them, visit the accompanying blog post on British Food: A History: www.britishfoodhistory.com I’ll be disappearing for a few months, unless of course, you are a monthly subscriber, where there will be a bonus episode coming up for you to listen to via the secret podcast.Season 10 of the podcast is sponsored by Netherton Foundry, makers of high-quality kitchen and outdoor cookware. Netherton Foundry ships to several countries outside of the UK, including the USA and Canada. Visit www.netherton-foundry.co.uk to find out more about their wonderful products – approved not just by me but by folk such as Tom Parker-Bowles, Diana Henry and Nigella Lawson.If you can, support the podcast and blogs by becoming a £3 monthly subscriber, and unlock lots of premium content, including bonus blog posts and recipes, access to the easter eggs and the secret podcast, or treat me to a one-off virtual pint or coffee: click here. Things mentioned in today’s episodeLudlow Food Festival 2026Serve it Forth mailing listServe it Forth Eventbrite pageBrecon Agricultural ShowMamgu Welsh cakesEnglish Food by Jane GrigsonCafé ErolIvor Cutler’s Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Vol.2 ep.6Ivor’s obituaryThe Feasts of Autolycus, by Elizabeth Robins PennellComfortably Hungry: Bleeding Cows & Black PuddingsThe Great Cream Tea Debate on my YouTube channelThe English Housewife by Gervase MarkhamDelia Smith's famous rallying cryPrevious pertinent blog postsTo Make Welsh Cakes (Pice ar y maen)Singin’ HinniesBlood ice creamScones: A brief historyFour Scone RecipesCornish SplitsPease BreadSyllabubsPrevious pertinent podcast episodesGriddle & Bakestone Cookery with Peter Gilchrist & Ross ClarkeEating Out in Georgian London with Peter RossRetro Foods with Briony May Williams Hogmanay & Hamely Kitchen with Paula McIntyreBritish Fish & Seafood with CJ JacksonThe History of Food Waste & Preservation with Eleanor BarnettBlack & White Pudding with Matthew Cockin & Grant HarperA History of Baking with Sam Bilton & Neil ButterySpices with Ian AndersonHistorical Cookery with Jay Reifel50 years of ‘English Food’ by Jane Grigson with Sam Bilton, Ivan Day, Annie Gray & Jill NormanBreakfast with Felicity CloakeSpecial Postbag Edition #618th Century Dining with Ivan DayEel Special 1: Elvers with ‘Elver’ DaveMedieval Meals & Manners with Danielle CybulskieShakespearean Food & Drink with Sam BiltonLent episode 1: Preparing for LentC is for Caudle, Cider & Cappuccino Neil’s blogs and YouTube channel:‘British Food: a History’ The British Food History Channel‘Neil Cooks Grigson’ Neil’s books:Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential HousekeeperA Dark History of Sugar...