It's 1670. Charles II is on the throne. Only five years ago the Great Plague swept through the city, and the year after that, the Great Fire. Samuel Pepys had buried his cheese in a garden to save it from the flames, while ferrymen rowing people across the Thames glanced back at the glowing, crackling embers of what once were homes, businesses and places of worship. The event changed the skyline of London forever, removing the wonky, Medieval timber-framed buildings that huddled the city's streets. Now, London was being rebuilt.
As you sit down after a busy day's work you might want something satisfying, easy and nutritious. Cue what the cookbook The Ladies Cabinet called, 'To Bake Collops of Bacon and Eggs'.
Here's the actual recipe, from the 1670 book:
Take a dish and lay a pie plate therein, then lay in your Collops of Bacon, and break your eggs upon them. Then lay on Parsley, and set them into an oven not too hot, and they will be better than fried.
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