Eliza Acton

I blipped this because I had never heard of her and the splendid blue plate seemed fitting for a cookery writer.

In 1845 she wrote Modern Cookery for Private Families which included mouthwatering recipes such as Kentish' sausage meat, suet pudding and cherry jam, 'Tonbridge' brawn, and ‘Bordyke’ Veal cake.  The plaque above is on a house in Bordyke.   The Tonbridge brawn recipe opens with "split open the head of a pig of middling size, remove the brain and all the bones, strew the inside rather thickly with fine salt, and let it drain until the following day"

Isabella Beeton based her famous book on Eliza Acton's work  and  Delia Smith is quoted as calling her ‘the best writer of recipes in the English language’.