HistoricalFoods.com is the research branch of Apex Catering. Here you can find some wonderful period recipes for you to try out at home. These are recipes that we have sourced from extant historical manuscripts and then translated them for use in the modern kitchen. We have used many of these recipes in Film and T.V. productions and also for our clients, when asked to cater for an authentic and acurate feast or dish from British history. On HistoricalFoods.com you can find out more about the forgotten secrets of British recipes and the skills that were once used in their making, carving and serving.



VIDEO ABOVE: This is a Medieval Banquet we did for David Dimbleby's BBC documentary 'How We Built Britain'. Whatever the theme, whatever the period in British history, we can recreate any feast or dish.

Using traditional ingredients we grow on our own market garden farm we test, taste and tinker with partial known recipes and methods from history until we get it right. There is a wonderful legacy of great British dishes to be found in our history, and although there are a few dishes which are not suitable for modern tastes, the British culinary tradition is a noble one, full of good food and recipe treats, most of them now forgotten. Here at HistoricalFoods.com we aim to unearth these great dishes and bring them back into our lives - and along with other interested food historians we aim to archive Britains food heritage.