A cookbook from 1747 containing the first ever English recipes for curry is set to fetch up to $5,000 at auction.
It calls for rabbit or ‘fowl’ and involves onions, peppercorns, rice, and roasted coriander seeds but no ginger, garlic or chili peppers.
Another recipe for ‘pellow’ now called pilau has pickled pork, fowls, cloves, white pepper, onions, rice and is finished with hard-boiled eggs.
