Biscuits from the Archives- Historical recipe testing: Gingerbread from the De Budé fonds
From the collection of the Royal Archives © Elizabeth II A recent term essay for one of my classes brought me into contact with the archived papers of General Jacob de Budé, the Swiss-born aide-de-camp (among other things) to King George III of Britain during the late 18th century. I had never heard about him before, but upon further research he appears to have had his share of importance in the court; it is likely that he was a figure of some note within the private Royal intelligence network during the 1770's and 80's. [1] He furthermore appears several times in the archive itself in other collections, and, more famously, features in the memoirs of Fanny Burney- although what she has to say about him is not always particularly flattering. [2] Although the actual papers are housed in the Windsor archives of the Royal Trust collection in England, much of the de Bude fonds has *thankfully * been digitised and is available to access freely on the Georgian Pape...