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A hidden hoard of eighteenth century recipes has come to light for the first time in nearly 200 years in a central London archives centre.

Staff at Westminster City Council's Archives Centre came across the recipes earlier this year in a digital project where some sources were posted online and began sharing its culinary delights in the "Cookbook of Unknown Ladies" blog.

With more than 350 recipes dating from 1690 to 1830, followers of the online blog will be able to find out how to make dishes such as 'Veal kidney Florentine,' a pastry tart with kidney, apples, lettuce, orange peel, spices and currants, or 'Mammas Mince Pyes', made with a mince mixture of candied fruits and cow's tongue.

And for dessert? Subscribers to the blog can round off a Georgian supper with a 'Sweet spinach tart' cooked using almonds, nutmeg and half a pound of sugar, before washing it all down with a Tewahdiddle, a regency cocktail of beer, brandy, sugar, ginger, nutmeg and lemon peel.

The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies' blog is so-called because the authors of the handwritten recipes are unknown, but believed to be dishes which would have been cooked in the Georgian family home.

Local historians are now trying to piece together the information to find out more about the unknown cooks of the seventeenth century.

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