<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>I've always assumed it was grilled marrow bone, which chef Fergus Henderson is still serving in London today.</div><div><a href="http://www.eater.com/2014/10/15/6926263/fergus-henderson-roast-bone-marrow-st-john-london">http://www.eater.com/2014/10/15/6926263/fergus-henderson-roast-bone-marrow-st-john-london</a></div><div><br></div><div>The adventurous scholar and gentleman cook Neil, who is cooking his way through <i>English Food </i>by Jane Grigson, does her marrow bones recipe in this post.</div><div><a href="http://neilcooksgrigson.blogspot.com/2011/12/319-marrow-bones.html">http://neilcooksgrigson.blogspot.com/2011/12/319-marrow-bones.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Florence White, in her 1932 labor of love and scholarship, <i>Good Things in England, </i>has three recipes for marrow bones, attributing the roast one to Francatelli (1805-1876, Anglo-Italian chef to Queen Vic, who is alleged to have eaten marrow on toast every day for breakfast), p. 272 in the Persephone edition.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Larousse</i> says bone-marrow is called <i>moelle</i> in French and lists some 11 recipes for it.</div><div><br></div><div>One mention in the 1896 American cookery Bible, <i>Fannie Farmer, </i>for use of bone-marrow as cooking fat.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy trails.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeannette Smyth</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On May 24, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jeremy Hawthorn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Searched LiteratureOnline and also
Google. Two unrevealing hits in 19th century plays, two in novels
apart from Woolf. And one hit that suggests that it might be bone
marrow.<br>
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Ellipses thanks to LiteratureOnline.<br>
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Jeremy H<br>
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1. .... "Should you like eggs, sir?" "Eggs, no! Bring me a grilled
bone...<br>
...." "What would you think of me if I came down two hours after
every one else and ordered grilled bone...<br>
... the smell of grilled bone." "Not at all. It describes a
sensation in your little nose...<br>
... the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. That's his
way. Ah, here comes my grilled bone... (<i>Middlemarch</i> Book
1, chapter 11)<br>
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2. ... all the parties home to Pall Mall, to celebrate the event
with a grilled bone, Havannahs, and Regent's ... (Disraeli, <i>Vivian
Grey</i>. Volume 2, Book the fourth, chapter vi)<br>
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3. "Queen Victoria was another roasted bone marrow lover,
reputedly eating it every day. <br>
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See:
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