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Florence Balcombe's "Dracula" Salad, inspired by a 1912 recipe Bram Stoker's widow contributed to a church pamphlet in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire (one of their favourite holiday spots).

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2021-09-22


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 for

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2021-07-01

It's so let's celebrate one of the best: the Green Fairy.
Cheers!

✏️ by (illustrator for

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2021-06-25



"It all begins with a bowl of chicken stew..."

("Best Served Bloody: Cold Comfort Meals in Bram Stoker’s Dracula", A Gothic Cookbook)



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2021-06-22

Check out our new profile banner, designed by – who also does all the pretty illustrations for the book
It should give some idea of just what will actually look like when it's at home. In your kitchen.

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2021-06-12

DRACULA SALAD:

A bloodless plate with beetroot, blood orange & feta

Inspired by a 1912 recipe by Bram Stoker's widow, Florence Balcombe, of blood-red tomatoes with "ripe, purple, egg-shaped plums"

Get this & other recipes in
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2021-06-12

The juniper berry isn't a berry at all. It's a female seed cone; a highly evolved pinecone with fleshy and merged scales that give it the appearance of a berry.
🍸👉 https://t.co/jNoP1ygtKp

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2021-06-10

Let's share some tragic shall we? We'll start. The tragedy of... Jonathan Harker compiling a "food diary" to relay to Mina when, in fact, HE is the one on the menu...

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2021-06-08

This is one of our recipes in - the first we tested in fact! 👇
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2021-06-05

What are some of your favourite food/drink mentions in - or facts about food in Gothic stories? Or even just foods you really crave when reading a certain text?
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2021-06-04

IT'S COMING! launches on today and we are both thrilled and terrified. Supporters can help bring it to life/afterlife so it can forever roam the earth, spreading geeky insights and spookily simple recipes far and wide.

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2021-06-02

IT'S COMING! launches on in just TWO DAYS and we are both thrilled and terrified. Supporters can help bring it to life/afterlife so it can forever roam the earth, spreading geeky insights and spookily simple recipes far and wide.

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2021-05-31