East India Co's sales
East India porcelain
Queen's Royal Cookery
Cabinet of curiosities
Sugar in Britain
Bartholomew Fair
Gulliver's Travels
Executions at Tyburn
Textile production
Cities in chaos
East India textiles
The Harlot’s Progress
Handel's Messiah
Advert for a giant
Surgery
Muffin Seller
JS Bach manuscript
The Art of Cookery
Henry Fielding: Crime
Gin addiction
Ranelagh pleasure gardens
Johnson's Dictionary
'The British Giant'
Jigsaw Puzzle Map
The Spinning Jenny
Pleasure gardens
Factories
London prostitutes
Captain Cook's journal
Declaration of Independence
Map of the Gordon Riots
Storming of the Bastille
Runaway slaves
First curry powder advert
First hot air balloon
Abolitionist meeting notes
Georgian entertainments
Georgian Theatre
Mozart’s notebook
Poverty
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Mary Wollstonecraft
Execution of Louis XVI
William Blake's Notebook
An acrobat's 'Surprising Performances'
In England, the first recipe for curry appeared in a cookery book of 1747. The dish reflected the tastes of the staff of the East India Company – England’s most powerful trading company dealing in Asian goods. This article discusses the newly available ingredient ‘curry powder’, describing it as ‘exceeding pleasant and healthful’.
First British advert for Curry Powder
To Persons of Rank, Traders to all Nations, and Servants.
The invaluable rich Ingredient, called CURRY POWDER, brought from the East-Indies by the famous SOLANDER, is ROW [sic] to be only had, in its original virtues, at Sorlie's Perfumery Warehouse, No.23, Piccadilly, near Air-street. The celebrated East-India Dishes, and most sumptuous Sauces, are made with this Powder. It is exceeding pleasant and healthful - renders the stomach active in digestion - the blood naturally free in circulation - the mind vigorous, and contributes most of any food to an increase of the human race. - Many useful novelties; with the richest and cheapest English, French, and Italian Perfumeries, may be had at the above place. Descriptions of the various virtues of Curry Powder, and directions how to use it, may be had at the Proprietor's, and at the Booksellers', by which any person can make up a dish of Curry, &c. It retains its full improved powers in every climate. Exporters, and all Dealers, will have encouraging allowance.