Podcasts History The English Heritage Podcast Episode 48 - How to cook the Victorian way with Mrs Crocombe at Audley End

Episode 48 - How to cook the Victorian way with Mrs Crocombe at Audley End

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 6 a.m.

Ahead of the launch of new cookery book, How to Cook the Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe, we meet the book\u2019s authors, senior properties historian Andrew Hann and food historian Annie Gray, to discover the story of Audley End\u2019s former head cook Avis Crocombe and the recipes she left behind.\n\nLearn about Mrs Crocombe\u2019s working life at Audley End, why Bob Stride, a descendent of the Crocombe family, decided to donate her original recipe book to English Heritage, and how she has since become an unlikely YouTube sensation.\n\nTo find out more about Audley End House and Gardens, and plan a visit, go to www.englishheritage.org.uk/audley\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices