• Guacamole is a green sauce made primarily from avocados with additional ingredients depending on the region of Mexico.

The History of Guacamole

• The use of guacamole dates to the times of the Aztecs, an indigenous group that populated much of Mexico. The origin of the word guacamole comes from the Aztec phrase ahuaca-mulli, which translates roughly to avocado sauce. The Aztecs believed guacamole could be used as an aphrodisiac!!!!.

The Main course was Steak and kidney suet pudding with potatoes and veg.

Steak and kidney puddings don’t often appear on menus these days. It is one of the few dishes that this country can fairly claim as its own – indeed, a 17th-century French visitor was move to write “blessed be he that invented pudding, for it is a manna that hits the palates of all sorts of people; a manna, better than that of the wilderness, because the people are never weary of it. Ah, what an excellent thing is an English pudding!” And from a Frenchman, that’s basically an admission of culinary genius.

Although the pudding has a long and noble history (according to the Oxford Companion to Food it’s able to trace its lineage back to the imperial Roman sausage), the modern boiled pudding only appeared on the scene with the invention of pudding cloth in the 17th century, and basins have only come into widespread use in the last hundred years. And what of that great combination, steak and kidney? Jane Grigson tells us that Mrs Beeton was the first to put the two together under a suet crust in 1861, in a recipe sent to her by a reader in Sussex, a county that “had been famous for its puddings of all kinds for at least a century”.

Puddings