Jane Austen's Table by Robert Tuesley Anderson

Author:Robert Tuesley Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: 2022-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

In a letter to her friend in Lesley Castle—one of Austen’s juvenile skits—Charlotte Lutterell writes: “We spent a very pleasant Day, and had a very good Dinner, tho’ to be sure the Veal was terribly underdone, and the Curry had no seasoning. I could not help wishing all dinner-time that I had been at the dressing of it.”

From the mid-eighteenth century on, the British East India Company controlled vast swathes of the Indian subcontinent, and its agents and employees gained a taste for the local cuisine, or at least a heavily Europeanized version of it. Back at home, “curries”—made with a curry powder blend rather than individual spices—became fashionable, along with Indian-inspired goods such as calico prints and fanciful Mughal-inspired buildings such as the Royal Pavilion (completed in 1823). The country’s first Indian restaurant opened (briefly) in 1810, and there were even luxurious “Indian” baths, also in Brighton.

Miss Lutterell’s curry sadly lacked seasoning—as a result it was as unlike a curry as a dish could be—so here we have gone for something more authentic, using a range of fresh, fragrant spices.

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