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  1. Round, lacy fried batter spirals, crisp and golden brown, stacked on a plain pewter plate and dusted with white sugar.
    Crespes

    Medieval · Desserts & Sweets · 40 min total

    Crespes (1393) 

    A thin batter of flour, eggs, water, wine and salt poured in a spiral into hot lard and butter, fried crisp and dusted with sugar: the crespes of the Ménagier.

  2. Twelve hard-boiled egg halves standing upright like small cups, each filled with a pale yellow yolk mixture, on a bed of watercress on a white oval platter.
    Deviled Eggs

    Starter · 1 hr total

    Houdini’s Deviled Eggs (1922) 

    Houdini’s deviled eggs: hard-boiled halves trimmed to stand upright, filled with yolk rubbed smooth with melted butter, cayenne, mustard and vinegar, and set on dressed watercress.

  3. Two scoops of smooth pale tan tea ice cream in a small blue-and-white porcelain bowl on cream linen, beside a tiny dish of loose black tea leaves and a silver teaspoon.
    Howqua’s-Tea Ice Cream

    Desserts & Sweets · 5 hr 5 min total

    Howqua’s-Tea Ice Cream (1844) 

    Howqua’s-tea ice cream from Thomas Masters’s Ice Book of 1844: cream and sugar mixed with a cup of strong black tea and frozen. Howqua was the Western name of a great Canton tea merchant.

  4. Six browned, slightly curved pork sausages on a dark iron grill over glowing charcoal, and one more cut in half on an earthenware plate beside it, showing a coarse filling studded with pine nuts and peppercorns.
    Smoking sausages on a silver grill

    Ancient Rome · Meat & Poultry · 3 hr 15 min total

    Lucanian Sausages (Apicius) 

    Lucanian sausages from Apicius: pork and fat pounded with pepper, cumin, savory, parsley and bay, mixed with fish sauce, peppercorns and pine nuts, filled into casings and grilled.