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@Shadoanbj @ellabuchan @foodforflo @unbounders Thank you @Shadoanbj 🎉
@TheRegencyCook Also, plums with tomatoes is wonderful, as we discovered while developing a recipe based on Florence Balcombe's 1912 "Dracula" Salad.
(Pics: our book illustration/our recipe test)
RECIPE THREAD
Here's a summery recipe to bring out the inner Goth in all of us – or to bring out the inner summer in all of us Goths...
[From A Gothic Cookbook; sharing as a #thread as it's obviously a little too long for one tweet]
#GothicSummer #TeaseTuesday #gothic
#MythologyMonday
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According to Hawaiian lore, the first breadfruit tree grew from the testicles of a man who had sacrificed himself for his family. When the unwitting gods were presented with the prickly green fruit, they were delighted and ate its spongy flesh...
We've just added a reel showcasing illustrations from A Gothic Cookbook, hand-drawn by @ounceofstyle and with splashes of red added using @TrueGritTexture brushes.
(We use just one shade of red, though the brushes create the effect of different tones)
https://t.co/icVWMY8mgp
Florence Balcombe (AKA Mrs Bram Stoker) was born #OnThisDay in 1858 so it's "Dracula Salad" for lunch...
Here's her recipe, printed in a Cruden Bay church pamphlet; the illustration that will feature in A Gothic Cookbook; and a pic from our recipe testing
#DRACULA #cookbook #OTD
#SwampSunday
In Philippine folklore, the Berberoka suck water from swamps or lakes to reveal plentiful fish and lure human victims – who are then drowned and eaten. There's one way to scare the creatures away, though: they have a morbid fear of crabs...
#folklorethursday
An old Yorkshire superstition warns that, if a loaf of bread fails to rise, there must be a corpse nearby. It was also inadvisable to cut off both ends; that would call the devil to fly over the house.
[Image: acorn bread by @ounceofstyle for #AGothicCookbook]