Make the author's favorite foods from her family's recipes. The most authentic Jane Austen food book based on two handwritten cookbooks held within the Austen family circle. Paging through the period receipts revealed instant connections with the food references in the author's letters and novels. Now Haricot Mutton, Orange Wine, Bath Buns, White Soup, and many other foods familiar to Jane Austen can be recreated using the author's own family recipes. Dining with Jane Austen follows the sequence of the author's life and letters, telling her story through the foods on her plate. This is the first work to feature recreations of the author's family recipes on family china in family houses where Jane Austen lived and dined. This book brings together for the first time Martha Lloyd's Household Book and The Knight Family Cookbook. These two handwritten cookbooks are part of the collections at Jane Austen's House Museum and Chawton House Library in Hampshire. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit these two historic sites in Hampshire. - 218 soft-bound pages - 250 full color illustrations - 45 period food articles - 75 recipes adapted from handwritten cookbooks held within the Austen family circle - 25 images of the historic manuscript cookbooks - 5 biographical sections: Steventon, Bath, Southampton, Chawton, Winchester - 2 introductory sections: Inviting Jane Austen to Dinner Exploring Two Austen Family Cookbooks