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Lets have it somewhere mid-atlantic, on my submarine or your airship?
Wilhelm has taken the bit between his teeth, the US list goes from strength to strength and eclipses the UK list in its breadth and variety. Frys chocolate was certainly around in the 19th C. but not the Turkish Delight which is a great pity as it is very more-ish. I could eat the chocolate covering though...Robertson's Golden Shred Marmalade, Has anyone here not tasted marmalade? Heavenly on cheese amazingly.Chlorodyne exists! It is also on the list as Mr. Collis Browne's tincture the modern formulation containing morphine and peppermint oil.Still available for the relief of coughs and diarrhoea, the female weakness, ague, &c &c. I love the stuff. The morphine is an additional bonus and is abused by some. Not many medicines that you can buy over-the-counter in the UK that contain morphine. I say, I have an idea, lets add some fizz, some sugar and serve it ice cold, it'll be one up on Coca-Cola. We could call it Poppy-Pola, Chlora-Cola or Morphi-Mola.You should certainly add the L&P wooster sauce to the US list Mr. Wilhelm as it is well-known and used in the US.I strongly resent the implication that Altoids are not a food. They are, of course.Wincarnis? I have never heard of the stuff, a meat wine? I can see why not. I will have to do some digging.Quote from: bicyclebuilder on April 04, 2012, 08:27:47 am I'd suggest to make dishes and pastry from that period. Only products would limit your inventory. - If only, I started out by identifying the brands a steampunk gentleman would be aware of that exist to this day and I must continue along this path to the bitter end. Talking of bitters, Angostura bitters, developed as a tonic by German Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert in 1824, not a food but certainly makes vile drinks more palatable. We could put some in the Morphi-mola.Vigroids (formerly Nigroids) is the brand name of a liquorice sweet. The small black pellets are particularly marketed as an expectorant lozenge for singers, using the slogan "for clarity of voice". The product is manufactured by Ernest Jackson & Company Ltd of Crediton in Devon. In November 2010 the name was changed from "Nigroids" to 'Vigroids'. Gosh, I hate it when they do that though I can understand why. It just makes the list but only just because of the N-change makes a difference to the brand identity. Tunnock's Tea Cakes make the list. We have Nestles (as we called it in the UK) already on the list always being an Anglo-Swiss entity for most of its existence, the only product from them is in the form of their condensed milk though we could probably add the chocolate safely enough. Which other of its 3,000 products was it making at that time?Here is the UK list. Not A lot of change. Still haven't done the cheese research.: Colman's Mustard - 1814Harrington Cheese's Stilton (and Derbyshire) -- 1720McVitie's Biscuits - 1830Digestives and Rich Tea biscuitsRobertson's Golden Shred Marmalade - 1864Twinings Tea - 1706Bassett's Pontefract cakes - ~1760Matthew Walker's Christmas puddings 1899Barber's Cheddar Cheese 1833Andrews Liver Salts - 1894Warburtons bread - 1876John West tinned salmon, mackerel and sardines 1857Crosse and Blackwell chutneys and picallili 1706Walls sausages and bacon - 1786Walls pork pies 1786R Whites lemonade - 1894Idris ginger beer - 1873Idris fizzy cream sodaIdris dandelion and baldockFyffe's bananas 1878Taylor's of Harrogate tea and coffee (1886)Irn Bru - 1901 under the name Strachan's BrewHolland's Pies 1854Dickinson and Morris 1851 (maker of Melton Mowbray pork pies)Sarson's vinegar 1794Sharwood's chutney 1889Cerebos Salt 1894Paxo stuffing (1901)Hartley's jams 1871Frank Cooper's 1874Haywards pickles 1868Geo. Watkins Mushroom Relish est.1830HP Sauce 1895Sharwoods Mango Chutney est 1889Walkers Shortbread 1898Suchard chocolate 1826Atora beef suet 1893Brown and Poulson's cornflour 1865Borwick's baking powder 1895Fentiman's ginger beer 1905Coca cola 1900 (UK)Robinson's barley water 1830Rose's lime juice 1867Scott's Porage Oats 1880Perrier water 1898Schweppes tonic 1771Schweppes ginger ale (1870)jacobs cream crackers 1885oxo 1899Carrs water biscuits 1841Cadbury's cocoa 1824Tate & lyle sugar 1877Tate & lyle syrupTate & lyle treacleBirds custard 1837Bovril 1870Golden shred marmalade 1864Garabaldi biscuits 1861Patum Peperium 1828Fray Bentos corned beef 1899Nestles condensed milk 1867Typhoo tea 1903Camp coffee 1876Huntley and Palmers nice biscuits 1895Shippams meat pastes 1896Rowntrees pastilles 1881Heinz beans 1886 (UK)Jesmona Black BulletsJackson's of Picadilly fine teasTunnocks Tea cakesJump to: navigation, searchWincarnis (mixed with Leibigs meat extract to restore the 'meatiness' !)NigroidsLets add some pictures to spice up the thread. I'll drop in a few of the UK brands. Feel free to do the same.
I'd suggest to make dishes and pastry from that period. Only products would limit your inventory.
Coca cola was introduced in 1886
Shocking! I find I am talking to myself. One more word - how much more steampunk could a food be than Peek Freans Teetotal Plum Pudding? Answer: Peek Freans Brandy Soaked Plum Pudding.Fascinating story of the Dum Dum factory related in Wikipedia under "Peek Freans".
P.S. as for non PC brands, what about the Robertson's Golliwog? I remember a free enamelled Golliwog Badge with marmalade. Interesting to trace that back to the Zulus at Isandlwana (any Flashman readers here?).
Sir, Aside - does anyone know if fish paste in small swirly glass pots has an old brand name?
Also, perhaps jujubes in Britain were called Zubes.
Peak Freans: were available in the UK well into my lifetime
We used to shop in a Bournemouth grocer's called Williamson and Treadgold's, with a steampunk interior - mahogany counters, and bins for biscuits with brass edges. Or was it a fantasy?
On the other hand that other well known household brand, Fray Bentos, I would never ever ever ever touch, no matter what. Their brand was forever blighted for me by the typhoid outbreak (1960s??) due to their tainted meat products.
There was also a kind of chocolate called Survival Chocolate, probably made for mountaineers.
