Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes.
Beerhouse
Type of public house created in the United Kingdom by the 1830 Beerhouse Act, legally defined as a place “where beer is sold to be consumed on the premises”.
Eccles cake
Named after the town in Lancashire where it was first made, the Eccles cake is a confection made of flaky pastry filled with currants.
Elizabeth Raffald
18th-century English entrepreneur, author of The Experienced English Housekeeper, and possible inventor of the Eccles cake.
Florence Petty
Florence Petty (1 December 1870 – 18 November 1948) was a Scottish cookery writer and broadcaster.
Gin Craze
The Gin Craze in the first half of 18th-century Great Britain was a period when the consumption of gin increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of extreme drunkenness.
Gruel
Any kind of roasted and crushed cereal moistened by being mixed with water or milk.
Magee Marshall & Company
Magee Marshall & Company operated from the Crown Brewery in Bolton, Lancashire, England from 1888 until being taken over by Greenall Whitley in 1958.
Martha Bradley
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.
Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales’s Receipts (1718)