Historical recipes often represent the antithesis of fast, over-processed junk. I want to gently open the public’s eyes to what happens beyond the Bridgerton upper-class society.’ ‘Mrs Crocombe has plenty of anecdotes about her day-to-day living besides recipes. ‘I believe people want to see servants’ lives too,’ she says.
‘The YouTube videos have taken on a life of their own,’ agrees Dr Annie Gray, one of Britain’s leading food historians and an expert on Mrs Crocombe who helped recreate the kitchen set at Audley End House. So why has a stern, no-frills Victorian cook so captured people’s imaginations? It’s also where the real Mrs Crocombe worked as a cook for the family of the 5th Baron Braybrooke in the 1880s.
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Instead, she has been brought back to life courtesy of historical interpreter Katherine Hipperson, who plays her in a series of YouTube cookery videos that have become a huge, and rather surprising, worldwide hit.ĭressed in a simple floral dress from the period, with a crisp white pinny and mop cap, Katherine cooks genuine Victorian recipes from a kitchen at Audley End House in Essex, one of the finest Jacobean homes in England. Of course, you won’t have seen her on television - she died nearly 100 years ago. Whether preparing a kedgeree breakfast complete with prawns, parsley and quail’s eggs, a fruity spotted dick or a quivering apple cream, fans can’t get enough of her traditional dishes and no-nonsense approach.
Yes, nudge up Nigella and move over Mary Berry, the latest culinary star to hit our screens and our shelves - with her best-selling book piled high in every gift shop - is none other than Victorian country house cook Avis Crocombe. Millions of UK holidaymakers have visited a stately home or crumbling castle this summer - and if you were among them, you’ve no doubt spotted 2021’s hottest cook already.
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