Jennie Hood
@jenniehood.bsky.social
My life in (mostly) food posts. For medieval food, check out @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social
Happy Cheese Week to all who celebrate!
December 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy Cheese Week to all who celebrate!
Irn Bru ham coming out the oven. Simmered in Irn Bru and apple juice with allspice, pepper, bay leaves, coriander seeds, cloves, then some of that liquid was reduced with marmalade, honey, mustard, brown sugar, the ham was basted and baked. It's now in the fridge for tomorrow's Xmas Eve spread.
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Irn Bru ham coming out the oven. Simmered in Irn Bru and apple juice with allspice, pepper, bay leaves, coriander seeds, cloves, then some of that liquid was reduced with marmalade, honey, mustard, brown sugar, the ham was basted and baked. It's now in the fridge for tomorrow's Xmas Eve spread.
It's Christmas, Glasgow style. Taking inspiration from recipes on the Scottish Scran website and @rovinghaggis, I'm doing an Irn Bru ham this year. With the lovely 1901 Irn Bru too, so I've got high hopes. Watch this space!
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's Christmas, Glasgow style. Taking inspiration from recipes on the Scottish Scran website and @rovinghaggis, I'm doing an Irn Bru ham this year. With the lovely 1901 Irn Bru too, so I've got high hopes. Watch this space!
In the Special Collections reading room of the National Library of Scotland. This afternoon, I'm off to Register House for more research. Having a lovely day. 😍
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In the Special Collections reading room of the National Library of Scotland. This afternoon, I'm off to Register House for more research. Having a lovely day. 😍
Throwback to the time I thought it'd be funny to put eyes on Martin's food. Grumpy sandwich did not find it funny.
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Throwback to the time I thought it'd be funny to put eyes on Martin's food. Grumpy sandwich did not find it funny.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Everybody knows the order to decorate your tree goes lights, tentacles, baubles. (Baubles still to come!)
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Everybody knows the order to decorate your tree goes lights, tentacles, baubles. (Baubles still to come!)
Today, I found out that my nearly-90-year old dad still has his postwar clothing ration book, my granny's wartime National Identity card and his Suez Crisis petrol rationing book from 1956, when he was a dashing young RAF air gunner racing all round Lincolnshire in his convertible Hillman Minx.
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Today, I found out that my nearly-90-year old dad still has his postwar clothing ration book, my granny's wartime National Identity card and his Suez Crisis petrol rationing book from 1956, when he was a dashing young RAF air gunner racing all round Lincolnshire in his convertible Hillman Minx.
You wait ages and then two come along at once! 😆 My article on the history of haggis and the tradition of Burns Night has been published in the international food history journal Petits Propos Culinaires! 🎉
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You wait ages and then two come along at once! 😆 My article on the history of haggis and the tradition of Burns Night has been published in the international food history journal Petits Propos Culinaires! 🎉
And homemade apricot pastries 🧡
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
And homemade apricot pastries 🧡
My sister sent me German baking book, so here are the German Christmas biscuits I baked. Never made them before, and I don't do much icing, but they'll do for a first attempt. I like the trees best. 🎄🎄
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My sister sent me German baking book, so here are the German Christmas biscuits I baked. Never made them before, and I don't do much icing, but they'll do for a first attempt. I like the trees best. 🎄🎄
I'm in the Brontë Society Gazette with an interesting food reference I spotted in Wuthering Heights. Appropriately, I was in Haworth at the time, where I was lucky enough to meet @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social, the fantastic editor of the Gazette. Thank you to her for suggesting I write about it!
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm in the Brontë Society Gazette with an interesting food reference I spotted in Wuthering Heights. Appropriately, I was in Haworth at the time, where I was lucky enough to meet @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social, the fantastic editor of the Gazette. Thank you to her for suggesting I write about it!
Happy weekend! -4C here this morning, so Granny Dunlop's stovies with oatcakes are the perfect winter warmer for this evening. Plus Valpolicella, because Friday.
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy weekend! -4C here this morning, so Granny Dunlop's stovies with oatcakes are the perfect winter warmer for this evening. Plus Valpolicella, because Friday.
Fields of the Nephilim at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. Jolly good stuff. 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Fields of the Nephilim at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. Jolly good stuff. 🖤
Chocolate and fudge sourdough bread sounds odd until you say 'chocolate and fudge bread and butter pudding'. With raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg. It's a small loaf, so the slices aren't as big as they look, although I should probably have cut them a bit smaller. The taste though, my goodness. 🤎
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Chocolate and fudge sourdough bread sounds odd until you say 'chocolate and fudge bread and butter pudding'. With raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg. It's a small loaf, so the slices aren't as big as they look, although I should probably have cut them a bit smaller. The taste though, my goodness. 🤎
It's the time of year for spooky baking! Inspired by a recipe on @joyfulhomecooking on Instagram but made with shortbread instead of linzer biscuits. 👻👻
October 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It's the time of year for spooky baking! Inspired by a recipe on @joyfulhomecooking on Instagram but made with shortbread instead of linzer biscuits. 👻👻
What an experience learning all about roasting meat in the amazing Baroque kitchen of Ĉeský Krumlov castle. I have loved every second of it! With food historian Ivan Day, castle director Pavel Slavko and a whole team of experts from the castle.
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What an experience learning all about roasting meat in the amazing Baroque kitchen of Ĉeský Krumlov castle. I have loved every second of it! With food historian Ivan Day, castle director Pavel Slavko and a whole team of experts from the castle.
Today, I'll be cooking (with a group of food historian friends) in the baroque kitchen of the Bellaria Summer Palace in Český Krumlov castle. Will hopefully have time to get some photos!
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Today, I'll be cooking (with a group of food historian friends) in the baroque kitchen of the Bellaria Summer Palace in Český Krumlov castle. Will hopefully have time to get some photos!
After lunch in Salzburg, we drove to Czechia and ended up in the beautiful medieval town of Český Krumlov.
October 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
After lunch in Salzburg, we drove to Czechia and ended up in the beautiful medieval town of Český Krumlov.
What a day. Breakfast in Bavaria, lunch in Austria, dinner in Czechia. This is our midday stop in Salzburg.
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What a day. Breakfast in Bavaria, lunch in Austria, dinner in Czechia. This is our midday stop in Salzburg.
Mrs Frazer arrived in the post today. I'll just be over here chilling with my Edinburgh ladies 🥰
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Mrs Frazer arrived in the post today. I'll just be over here chilling with my Edinburgh ladies 🥰
Not me deliberately making too much mashed potato for dinner on Friday night so we can have homemade tattie scones for breakfast on Saturday...🤭
October 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Not me deliberately making too much mashed potato for dinner on Friday night so we can have homemade tattie scones for breakfast on Saturday...🤭
Visited the Georgian House in Edinburgh. Really lovely, and the kitchen was a treat! When I visit places like this, I always get a strong sense of how much my place would have been below stairs. I don't think any of my past lives involved society dances or genteel dinner parties. 🤷♀️
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Visited the Georgian House in Edinburgh. Really lovely, and the kitchen was a treat! When I visit places like this, I always get a strong sense of how much my place would have been below stairs. I don't think any of my past lives involved society dances or genteel dinner parties. 🤷♀️
In a change from historical cookery, I went over to a friend's house today and helped out with some historical costume making. How lovely is this material? 🥰
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In a change from historical cookery, I went over to a friend's house today and helped out with some historical costume making. How lovely is this material? 🥰
Making my granny's stovies and thinking about how much I loved her. A traditional Scottish stew, originally just onion and potato with the dripping off roasting meat. Then, people started to add leftover meat. Scottish people can be opinionated about what goes into stovies, but I like it all ways.
September 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Making my granny's stovies and thinking about how much I loved her. A traditional Scottish stew, originally just onion and potato with the dripping off roasting meat. Then, people started to add leftover meat. Scottish people can be opinionated about what goes into stovies, but I like it all ways.