[Vwoolf] grilled bone

[Jeannette Smyth]

I've always assumed it was grilled marrow bone, which chef Fergus Henderson is still serving in London today.
http://www.eater.com/2014/10/15/6926263/fergus-henderson-roast-bone-marrow-st-john-london

The adventurous scholar and gentleman cook Neil, who is cooking his way through English Food by Jane Grigson, does her marrow bones recipe in this post.
http://neilcooksgrigson.blogspot.com/2011/12/319-marrow-bones.html

Florence White, in her 1932 labor of love and scholarship, Good Things in England, 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.

Larousse says bone-marrow is called moelle in French and lists some 11 recipes for it.

One mention in the 1896 American cookery Bible,  Fannie Farmer, for use of bone-marrow as cooking fat.

Happy trails.

Jeannette Smyth


On May 24, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jeremy Hawthorn wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Ellipses thanks to LiteratureOnline.
> 
> Jeremy H
> 
> 1. .... "Should you like eggs, sir?" "Eggs, no! Bring me a grilled bone...
> ...." "What would you think of me if I came down two hours after every one else and ordered grilled bone...
> ... the smell of grilled bone." "Not at all. It describes a sensation in your little nose...
> ... the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. That's his way. Ah, here comes my grilled bone...  (Middlemarch Book 1, chapter 11)
> 
> 
> 2. ... all the parties home to Pall Mall, to celebrate the event with a grilled bone, Havannahs, and Regent's ... (Disraeli, Vivian Grey. Volume 2, Book  the fourth, chapter vi)
> 
> 3. "Queen Victoria was another roasted bone marrow lover, reputedly eating it every day. 
> 
> See: <http://leitesculinaria.com/78928/recipes-roasted-bone-marrow.html#1F41v5EzbT1WX2W5.99>
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