Thursday, February 28, 2019

Fairy tale food & drink
of Ruth Manning-Sanders

Just for the halibut, I thought it would be fun to list out every food and drink mentioned in Ruth Manning-Sanders' 1963 collection A Book of Dwarfs and her 1965 collection A Book of Witches.

So here you go:

  • Apples
  • Apple (half rosy, half golden yellow)
  • Bacon
  • Barley sugar
  • Barleycorn
  • Beef (great barons)
  • Biscuit
  • Blackberries
  • Bread
  • Bread (crust)
  • Bread (crumbs)
  • Brew (in a goblet)
  • Butter
  • Butter (for a cat's paws)
  • Cabbage
  • Cakes
  • Cauliflower
  • Cheese
  • Cheese (goat)
  • Corn
  • Corn milk
  • Cream (in a dish)
  • Cucumbers
  • Dough
  • Eggs (hard-boiled)
  • Flour
  • Greens (with pig's head)
  • Gretel (for the witch)
  • Ham
  • Hansel (for the witch)
  • Hazel nuts
  • Heart (of bird)
  • Heart (of deer)
  • Herbs
  • Honey
  • Lettuce
  • Loaves (warm in the oven)
  • Loaves (nice and crusty)
  • Malt (in a sack)
  • Meat
  • Meat (bits in a bowl)
  • Milk (in a saucer)
  • Milk (in a bottle)
  • Nuts
  • Nuts (in a bag)
  • Nut kernels
  • Oats
  • Oil (in a flagon)
  • Pancakes
  • Porridge (in a dish)
  • Paunch (of cow)
  • Pears
  • Peas
  • Pig (suckling)
  • Pig's head (with greens)
  • Plums (red and ripe)
  • Punch (warm)
  • Radishes
  • Rampion
  • Salt
  • Sausage (in strings)
  • Strawberries
  • Swill (in a pail)
  • Tea
  • Venison pies
  • Walnut juice
  • Water
  • Wheat (in a sack)
  • Wine (in a goblet)
  • Wine (in a bottle)

1 comment:

  1. I most enjoy "wine in a sack." But also radishes. And cabbage.

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