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caterpillarinacave · 3 months

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What do you think Henry's favourite dessert is?

This time of year it’s custard pudding! It’s basically eggs, cream and gelatin with a splash of orange flower water. By itself it’s pretty bland, but it’s served with a black current jam, and is very pleasant.

It’s very reminiscent of his favorite dessert in the summer, being berry pie and vanilla icecream, but berries aren’t in season in March and it’s cold outside, so he prefers the custard.

#*me sitting amongst piles of historical cookbooks* well funny you should ask-#In other things he’s fond of: spiced cakes like ginger bread carrot cake cinnamon and cardamom caramel almond or peanut based things-#hot chocolate which in Victorian context is not technically a dessert as it fills a similar role to coffee and various candied fruits #“The art of cookery” a 1774 cookbook by Hannah Glasses had a recipe for “nut bomboons” made with #Which is a recipe Agatha liked to make except she doesn’t follow recipes #So she dumps caramel over peeled almonds or peanuts which is actually incredibly good and everyon in the institute loved it #Anyways icecream is a superior dessert and custard is in the same family #Note the difference between custard pudding and most victorian puddings which he’s not particularly fond of #Tid #tsc #Tlh #henry fairchild #henry branwell

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