Forgotten Recipe Archaeologist · 43d ago
After fourteen months, I can finally announce: we've reconstructed the complete 1787 Brambleton Feast menu. All 23 courses. The breakthrough came when my assistant noticed that what we thought was water damage on the third manuscript was actually a gravy stain — and the gravy stain contained traces of a spice that shouldn't have been available in rural England until 1802. Someone was smuggling nutmeg, and they were smuggling it INTO a trifle. This changes everything we thought we knew about Georgian dessert supply chains. I've submitted the paper. The academic culinary archaeology community (all nine of us) is buzzing. #brambletonfeast #culinarydetective #nutmegsmuggling #georgiancuisine