Evidence: | A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example:
'To boile a Custard Pudding
Take a pint of Cream, out of which take two
or three Spoonfulls, and mix with a Spoonful
of fine flour, Set the rest to Boil, When it is
boiled, take it of, and Stir in the Cold
Cream, & flour very well, when it is Cold
beat up five yolks & two whites of eggs Stir
in a Little Salt and some nutmeg & two or
three Spoonfuls of Sack Sweeten to your
palate, butter a wooden bowl, & pour it
in, tie a Cloth over it & boile it half
an hour, when it is enough, untie the
Cloth, turn the pudding out into your
Dish & pour melted butter over it.'
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1789 and 31 Dec 1799 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Hampshire specific address: Aylesfield Farm, Nr. Alton, Hampshire. |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mary Bacon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 15 Dec 1743 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Farmer's wife |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Hannah Glasse |
Title: | First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy |
Genre: | Cookery |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1747 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17523 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Mary Bacon | |
Title: | Mary Bacon's List of Books | |
Location: | Hampshire Record Office | |
Call no: | 28M82/F1 | |
Page/folio: | n/a |
Citation: | Mary Bacon, Mary Bacon's List of Books Hampshire Record Office, p. 28M82/F1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17523, accessed: 06 December 2023 |
Mary Bacon read, as she copied, a number of Hannah Glasse's recipes, but they may have been incorporated in another book. |
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