The "Couteurometer" not only displayed one's weight but also assessed one's dress-sense and, with a reassuring tone would invariably announce that, "...no matter what your social status..." you looked "absolutely spiffy".
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.