/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16107540
Flavourless

>>16107540
Depends on how much money you had.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpV8yKFY-k&list=PL1A5E7E5FB3DC92A2&index=1

>>16107540

>https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/insight-articles/defence-english-cooking

Like this.

>>16107540
gruel, water, bread

>>16107725
1946?

>>16107730
1952

>>16107540
Half of that shit is cold.

>>16107540
bad. don't listen to butthurt English shills who try to blame their bad food on rationing - it's been bad since the industrial revolution. Traditional cooking was destroyed by the social disruption of the industrial revolution and people forgot their knowledge of in-season herbs and vegetables, instead coming to rely on industrially-produced foods that were heavily adulterated, to a degree far worse than American industrial food today. People rightly make fun of Chorleywood process white bread, but it was actually a massive improvement on the government bread of the war years, which was dense, hard, dry and tasteless, but even the government bread was a massive improvement over the victorian-era bread, which was factory produced and often mostly sawdust and cut with alum, lead, chalk and copper, while milk was mixed with borax to neutralise acids so that it could be passed off as fresh when it was actually spoiled. Victorian Britain had a near 80% infant mortality rate for a reason.

>>16109595
what about before the industrial revolution?

>>16109595
forgot to add - almost nobody could afford meat, this is the era people lived on bread and possibly dripping, while the rich got to eat roast meat, curries and elaborate desserts.

>>16109613
very similar to French and German peasant food, and it used herbs and spices a lot more than modern British food. one recipe I know from the medieval period is a string of nuts wrapped around a spit and then a spiced batter spooned over it as it cooks over the flame. actually pretty nice. Also a lot of cured and smoked fish and sausages (similar to salami, chorizo, that kind of thing), which were very popular in Britain in the medieval era but fell out of favour and the knowledge of how to make them was lost. They also ate a lot of good strong cheese, which still exist today in Britain but most people just buy mass produced garbage. The English also in the medieval period ate pasta - not a British food but popular enough in Britain to earn a place in "The Forme of Cury", the first cookbook in English. It contains recipes for "makerouns" (macaroni) and "losyns". (lasagne) If you're interested in medieval British food, or just medieval food in general, the forme of cury is a good resource.

http://archive.org/stream/theformeofcury08102gut/7cury10.txt

>>16107540
https://victorianweb.org/history/spencer3.html

>>16109733
This article is on point. The soul of a nation's cuisine has always rested with the peasantry, with mothers' and granmas' cooking especially, not necessarily high cuisine. Victorian capitalism combined with the British class system devalued and decimated that culture, people were eating branded food made by businesses rather than family and regulation was lax because the ruling classes didn't give a shit about the peons' health or happiness, and that drop in standards led to cut corners and low expectations.

>>16109716
good stuff, thanks

>>16109783
Oh yeah, and I forgot to add, the middle class had a tendency to value food based on its class associations rather than quality/taste, which contributed to the decline of seafood consumption in the UK, as eating fresh fish, shellfish and brown bread was seen as low class and vulgar while roast beef was lionized as the height of sophistication and white bread was seen as "purer" and "more refined".

>>16109716
You got a losyns for that m8?

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>>16109991
>Just spit out my crackers
Fuck you got me

>>16107540
>its all a shade of brown and yellow

why is br*tbong food so.... visually bland

>>16107725

“Coffee in Britain is almost always nasty, either in restaurants or in private houses; the majority of people, though they drink it fairly freely, are uninterested in it and do not know good coffee from bad.”

>>16109595
>Victorian Britain had a near 80% infant mortality rate
Doubt.jpg

unlike continental europe, where they had an intellectual elite, the english elite is merely a merchant class, while the average brit is nothing more than a barbarian. the anglo only displays sophistication when he's juggling numbers like the spiritual semite he secretly is.

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