[Bloomsday recipes]

resources for replicating the meals eaten in Ulysses


rashers/eggs/fry/grease
bread, butter
milk, honey, sugarlumps


Irish Soda Bread: HuffPo, Joyce of Cooking


figrolls (fig newtons?)


bread and butter
tea, sugar, cream ("choice blend, finest quality, family tea")
kidney fried in butter with pepper


Simnel cakes


Banbury cakes


Roast beef and cabbage, corned and cabbage


burgundy
cheese sandwich, fresh clean bread, gorgonzola, pungent yellow mustard

gorgonzola sandwich: Davy Byrnes Pub, ditto


pears, peaches, Gilbey and Co's white invalid port


yellow thick peasoup
chunks of bread


mélanges, scones and butter, cakes


liver gravy
mashed potatoes


steak and kidney pie


Liver Slices Fried with Crust Crumbs & Bacon: The Joyce of Cooking


fried liver: Cassell’s “Dictionary of Cookery” (1870’s)


two teacups two level spoonfuls, four in all, of Epps's soluble cocoa
water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa

[Joycean poweruser's toolkit]

Here's the reference sources I find myself using over and over for both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. (Take the time to put these prominently on your bookmarks bar, and preset them for your most common ranges):


desktop editions of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
(much more flexible than concordances or online editions)

Fweet
includes regular expressions, annotations (FW only)

Wiktionary
multilingual, so especially good for FW

Onelook
wildcard search of multiple reference sites

the 1909 Dublin map
for Ulysses

the 1901 census
for Ulysses, lots of subtle uses (eg religion, occupation, street address)

GoogleBooks
chaotic but huge

Hathi books
much crisper but narrower

ngrams
track phrase origins

CopyPaste
special characters, quick and easy

GoogleKeep
for chunks of text you reuse

PowerThesaurus
nice design


also: zamzar.com is easy for all kinds of file format conversions