Episode 080 is the Great Tudor Bake Along Episode in which we make Tudor Jumbles together. It was a pretty non traditional episode. To start with, we were recording in the kitchen. Normally I record from a script, at my desk, with a decent sound setup, using a pop filter. Instead, we were mixing ingredients, opening bags of flour, running water – so the sound quality isn’t the greatest. But I think it’s made up for by Hannah’s cuteness. Or maybe I’m just biased.
If you want to bake with me, you can follow along in the podcast, and get all the information below. Plus, the history of all the ingredients used.
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Onwards …
The basic recipe I used for Tudor Jumbles – I didn’t use mixed spice, but rather cinnamon instead
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/jumble_biscuits_20028
Conversion
grams to cups: http://www.tuscanrecipes.com/cooking-tips/flour-sugar.html
Metric Conversions: http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/milliliters-to-cups.htm
Oven Temperature Conversion: http://www.inspiredtaste.net/23326/oven-temperature-conversion/
Music Credit
Orlando Gibbons’ Out of the Deep from the Tudor Consort
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Tudor_Consort/
Links
Bakers
http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/bakers-in-the-middle-ages.html
http://www.knebworthhouse.com/schools/docs/Tudor%20Food.doc
Butter Churn
http://findingshakespeare.co.uk/shakespeares-world-in-100-objects-number-80-a-butter-churn
Sugar
http://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/history-of-sugar.html
Eggs
http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizfood.html
http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/38.html
Vanilla
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102002688
Cinnamon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/cinnamon-comes-from_n_4963435.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/grow-to-eat/where-do-christmas-spices-come-from/
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
