Number One cause of marital breakup in the mid-1800's and perfectly legitimate grounds for divorce:
Poor horse-shodding by the wife.
Daze of Our Lives

Richard II’s Preferred Blancmange Recipe

November 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm (Afternoon Tea)

This page, showing a recipe for Blancmange (Blank maunger), is from Fourme of Curye, compiled by master cooks to king Richard II of England, part of the Medieval Collection at the library of John Rylands University, Manchester.

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Original BBC story located here.