Saint George’s Day! A feast day since the 1415 it seems to pass us English by, with little more than a whimper. To counter this supermarket chain Morrisons has published a St. George’s Day Recipe Booklet.
Designed to celebrate medieval English cookery and English ingredients, it contains a selection of starters, main courses, sauces, sweet dishes and drinks, originally eaten by English royalty and aristocracy. The booklet is available at checkouts throughout Morrisons stores in England. To offer a range of recipes which can be used throughout the year the booklet indicates when English produce is in season.
Recipes include Oyster Soup, Roast Chicken with Sauce Madam, Sweet and Sour Lamb and Almond Cakes. Several of the recipes utilise Almond Milk, a recipe for which is also provided. Almond milk was “an essential ingredient in Medieval food”.
The booklet can also be downloaded in PDF format.
Thanks for the booklet. Maybe one day I’ll come back to some of these traditional recipes and modernise them, reintroducing the old produce. I know a lot of things have dropped out of British cuisine completely, such as acorns. And I don’t think I’ve seen almond milk.
I have to agree that some of the recipes do sound interesting. I think the writer has modified them for todays palate…
HI! i think that the ONE day that we have to celebrate to be proud of being Enlgish. It isn’t celebrated enought and well we should be proud and happy to be English. So i think we all as a country should celebrate it a lot more and show other people that we are proud of being English!!!
Well done Morrisons! I think the time will come when you overtake Tescos. Many English people will be very pleased!
Big ‘up ‘to Morrisons. How nice to celebrate being English – for onc. We should be more proud of our country which has given the world so many great things and is still one of the most tolerant countries in the World. Good o n you Morrisons!
Could you please repost the PDF link as it appears to be broken and I would dearly love to look at the booklet. Thanks
I can only assume that Morrisons have removed the pages in question as the link did work correctly at the time of posting (April). I sadly dont have a copy of the PDF either.