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Getting sexy with cinnamon

Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.

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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.

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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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  • Essence of almonds : for flavouring blanc-mange, custards, cakes, puddings, &c.
  • Essence of lemon : for flavouring blanc-mange, custards, cakes, puddings, etc.
  • Di-Lactofort : fortifying and flavouring syrup for milk / produced and distributed by Cuxson, Gerrard & Co. Ltd.
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • Liebig Company's extract of meat is invaluable for preparing beef tea and is the cheapest and best stock for flavouring and improving soups, sauces, gravies & made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Limited.
  • Liebig Company's extract of meat is invaluable for preparing beef tea and is the cheapest and best stock for flavouring and improving soups, sauces, gravies & made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Limited.
  • Cheese-flavoured puffed corn snack
  • Fab : strawberry and vanilla flavours iced lolly with chocolate flavoured coating and sugar strands / Lyons Maid Limited.
  • Fab : strawberry and vanilla flavours iced lolly with chocolate flavoured coating and sugar strands / Lyons Maid Limited.
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