A listing of food consumed in the Kanon.
Compiled by Irene Henry

PB # = Page number in American paperback edition
HC # = Page number in American hardcover edition
Arranged by Novel
The Beekeeper's Apprentice | A Monstrous Regiment of Women | A Letter of Mary | The Moor | O Jerusalem
"I had arranged to be at Holmes's cottage at four o'clock, knowing that tea was Mrs. Hudson's favorite meal to prepare."
-Mary Russell, BEEK

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

PB
#
HC
#
Meal
14   Bread, cheese, relishes, cakes (tea)
20 18 Honey wine
53   Cocoa (Made over gas ring converted to Bunsen burner)
53   Birthday cake and champagne
69   Little pink cakes
87   Smoked ham (and whisky)
93 81 Ham on stale bread rolls (and Bass Ale)
96 83 Ham (Holmes), mutton (Mary) with mint sauce, tiny potatoes, glazed carrots
116   Tea and biscuits
132   "Undercooked" tinned beans
133   Lumpy, ash-flecked porridge
155   Coffee (made over campfire)
185   Brandy tasting of petrol
186 160 Mrs. Hudson's meat pies, bread, cheese, Stilton cheese
204 177 Roast capon, fresh bread, cheese
212   Boiled eggs (presumably soft-boiled?)
291   Cold, sour lemonade (Zionist settlement), hot, syrupy mint tea (Bedouin), Earl Grey with tinned milk (Army)
292   Thick, syrupy coffee
(Mahmoud's--probably what we think of as "Turkish" or "Greek")
339 291 Cheese scones
350   Fried bacon, pudding (meaning generic dessert)
373 321 Rare dry sherry
Oxford Cobbles
Oxford Cobbles, photo by Laura Stemle
"We ordered a meal that even his obese brother Mycroft would have found more than adequate, and when were were done, Holmes slumped back and prodded the bread roll on his plate."
-Mary Russell, MREG

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

PB
#
HC
#
Meal
55 Toasted muffins
6  Toasted muffins, butter, jam, anchovy toast, Christmas cake
18  Roasted chestnuts
19  Stale roll
2020 Tea, eggs and chips and beans on toast
2626 Marzipan-covered Christmas fruitcake
67  Tinned tomato soup with Madiera, water biscuits, cold boiled eggs, spoiled orange, cheddar cheese, and crusty port
94  Hot sweet smoky tea
110104 Curry, flavoured buns, and spiced coffee
120  Cheese and pickle sandwiches
121  Unidentifiable vaguely fishy sandwiches
132126 Chicken in tarragon sauce, glazed carrots (again), potatoes and salad, herbal tea w/lemon, fruity German wine
133127 Coffee and strawberries (in January!)
143  Tillie's chicken, soup and cheese bread
182  Bacon sandwich (bacon probably not streaky bacon, probably "Canadian" style?)
244  Boiled eggs, toast, marmalade, tinned peaches
290280 Baked pear and Stilton, onion soup w/garlic and grated cheese, sole almondine
292  Warm milk with grated nutmeg
295  Hot meat pie from street vendor
304  Cocoa and bread-and-dripping
Bodleian Library Door
Bodleian Library Door, photo by Laura Stemle
"I admit that cooking is not my strong point, but I object to having my nose rubbed in the fact."
-Mary Russell, LETT

A Letter of Mary

PB
#
HC
#
Meal
24  Mrs. Hudson's rabbit pie
50  Bread, oniony soup and cheese
75  Bread with relish, pickle, pickled onions, cheese, tea made with sultanas
101  Bacon & eggs kept in chafing dishes
104  Thick meat sandwiches and honey wine
110  Lemon custard
114  Grouse and new port
150  Sweet sherry
207  Pink and green iced biscuits
"When we had finished, I hunted the cook down in her kitchen, where she stood watching while two elderly time-worn moor dwellers methodically made their way through the plates of food before them, and I thanked her. She simply nodded, but she did so with a faint pinkness around her neck."
-Mary Russell, MOOR

The Moor

HC
#
Meal
16 Soup, fish, stewed rabbit, custard
17 metheglin
34 Bacon & eggs kept in chafing dishes again
44 Rich leek soup, game pie
45 Scones, Devon clotted cream, strawberry jam
58 Beef and mustard sandwiches, boiled eggs (presumably hard-boiled), campfire coffee
88 Lemon tart
159 Cheese and pickle sandwich
185 Wortleberry jam
242 Beef and leek pie
307 Roast goose with sage & onion stuffing

O Jerusalem

HC
#
Meal
17-18 Coffee, flat bread, mashed pulse or bean
26-27 Coffee
29 Spring water
33-34 "Cold food" and musty water
44 "Mess of brown pottage"
46 Large and muscular haunch of goat, coffee
52 Tea (Ali only)
53-55 Flat bread w/honey, dates, almonds, laban (goat's milk)
64 Tea, almonds, "rather nasty dried figs"
66 Porridge (sweet, flavored w/cinnamon), flat bread w/melted butter, tinned bacon (incl the grease) - cooked by Mahmoud
70 Tea
76 Rice, mutton, bread, dates, figs
79-81 Toasted crumpets & tea
95 Coffee
100 Coffee, flat bread, laban
106-107 "Ali's tasteless food", coffee
108 Tea
109 Bread, coffee
112-113 Coffee, bread, "hastily cooked and venerable mutton"
116 Coffee, 4 whole roasted sheep stuffed w/rice & golden fried pine nuts (rice flavored w/sumac berries), coffee w/cardamom
139 Left-over spiced lentils (Ali only, the rest of them probably ate the same thing on pg. 138 or so)
160 "Some unidentifiable meat that tasted like chicken, but had rather too many vertebrae", coffee
166 Earl Grey tea, crustless sandwiches (anchovy paste on brown bread, cucumber on white), tiny iced cakes - w/Allenby
170 Dinner (only soup mentioned, but I assume full dinner), English-style coffee
171 Deviled kidneys, kedgeree, boiled eggs, toast, kippers
178 Brandy, sweet mint tea, light soup, bread, small glass of harsh red wine - Russell only
187 Mug of soup (smelling of meat and onions) - Russell, Mahmoud & Ali
202-203 Cold, sour lemonade and local brandy - Russell only
210 Small pomegranate - Russell only
215 Cup of musty water, handful of dates- shared by Russell & Holmes
222 Black-red wine - w/Abbot Mattias
229 Bread, sour milk, apricots
235 Two meals of unidentified food (probably bread, Holmes says "we ate only bread with the sunrise" or something like that), coffee
238 2 large oranges (2 saved for later)
241 Bread & rice, lamb w/onions, nuts, "some tangy green leaf", chopped salad as garnish, tea, coffee, sweetmeats
251 Tea, candied almonds- Russell only
252 Withered apples, dates, sweet almonds - Russell only
265 Tea, Armenian pastries - w/Father Demetrius
274-275 Tea, unid contents of hamper of food - Russell only
286-298 Cocktails, dinner, coffee - at the American Colony
307 Coffee
311 "Something hot"
311 Bag of pistachios -shared by R&H
318 Water, leathery dried fruit - Russell only (in the caves)
329 Water, nuts, dates - R. & H.
342 "Hot food", tepid coffee - bought by Ali



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