Apple Hedgehog

Fantastical food dates back to the Romans. Medieval cooks delighted in creating food which looked like one thing but was made of another, most famously the mythical ‘cockentrice’: half a pig sewed to half a turkey or goose, then roasted and decorated. Hedgehogs were a common source of inspiration, due to their alien appearance and the fact that they were rarely eaten outside times of famine. An almond paste hedgehog recipe was in circulation in the 18th century, and in the 19th this version