Red Windsor (cheese)

Pale cream English cheddar-style cheese made from pasteurised cow’s milk marbled with a blend of port and brandy.

Posset

Drink made from milk curdled by the addition of an acidic liquid such as wine or ale, which evolved into an early form of trifle.

Manchester Tart

Variation on a Victorian recipe for Manchester pudding, first recorded by Mrs Beeton.

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)

Florence Petty

Scottish cookery writer and broadcaster (1870–1948).

Gin Craze

Period during the first half of 18th-century Great Britain when the consumption of gin increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of extreme drunkenness.

Rag pudding

Savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England.

A Little Bit of Cucumber

Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes.