Editor of Penguin’s ‘Great Food’ series, Pen Vogler has brought together the most delicious food writing from history, from Mrs Beeton to Samuel Pepys’s The Joys of Excess. Join her to find out about food through the ages and the challenges of recreating historical recipes.
Try four different cakes from books published in 1615, 1759, 1845 and 1922, and see if you can guess what ingredients they are made of.