John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn
- ISBN-10
- 0907325653
- ISBN-13
- 9780907325659
- Category
- Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / English, Scottish & Welsh
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Prospect Books
- Author
- John Evelyn
Description
JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) was a virtuoso, scholar and man of letters of Restoration England. His diary is required reading, his architectural and environmental treatises were prophetic, and his gardening was legendary. Among his manuscripts, now in the British Library, is a volume of receipts or recipes: for the stillroom, the sickroom and the kitchen. Those of cookery are printed here; in an edition that includes a full glossary, index of ingredients and biographical introduction. The recipes range wide over the repertoire of the seventeenth-century household; from liver puddings to excellent syllabubs. They include items picked up on his travels in Europe, as well as favourites given him by friends - such as that for gooseberry wine contributed by Sir Christopher Wren. The manuscript contains the recipes that Evelyn later printed in his book about salads, Acetaria. The recipes range over the repertoire of the 17th-century household and contain many recipes given to Evelyn by his friends. This fascinating collection includes instructions for 'puffe-paste which requires the yeolkes of six eggs and the whites of four, some fine flowere, sweete butter in very thicke pieces as big as wallnuts which is rolled out seven tymes, every tyme putting in more butter.'
Get the book
Similar books
-
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity
By Gillian Darley"This new biography ... is the first to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995.
-
The Letterbooks of John Evelyn
By David Galbraith, Douglas D.C. ChambersThe Letterbooks of John Evelyn, a collection of more than eight hundred letters selected by Evelyn himself, constitutes an essential new resource for scholars of seventeenth-century England.
-
Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets
By John EvelynThis book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain...
-
The Diary of John Evelyn
By John Evelyn377 and m. Murray's Handbooks cited—Belgium, i. 50 m. ; Northern Italy, i. 290 m. ; Surrey, i. 346 n., ii. 281 m. ; Suffolk, ii. 310 m., 336 m. ... 365 and m. Neale, Mr., lotteries set up by, iii. 304; built the Seven Dials, 312 and n.
-
Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes
By Victoria R. RumbleWhen properly prepared, the seeds are edible and were eaten by the Indians in Kalm's day.30 Kalm said the natives originally made spoons and trowels of laurel wood, and bowls of sassafras.31 Tripe de roche, or rock tripe, ...
-
Offal: Rejected and Reclaimed Food: Proceedings of the 2016 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
By Mark McWilliamsElizabeth Rundell reclaimed her recipe writing with Domestic Cookery. Rundell as a woman author found that her authorial rights were not respected because of feminized composition (collaboration, collection and pastiche as womancentred ...
-
John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening
By Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Therese O'Malley62 Shaftesbury's unfinished Second characters ; or the Language of Forms was edited by B. Rand , London , 1914 ; it and related texts , both published and manuscript , are discussed in David Leatherbarrow , “ Character , Geometry and ...
-
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
had been given away with each box of Cracker Jack, were replaced by tiny trinkets and other prizes for children. ... Grounds and penned the lyrics, which include “Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack / I don't care if I never get back.
-
The English Garden: A Social History
By Charles Quest-Ritson... Sir Philip , 229 , 231-2 science in horticulture , 96-102 seedsmen , 40-42 Shaftesbury , Anthony , third Earl of ... Sidney , wit , 163 Smith , Roland , broadcaster , 256 snowdrops , 41 Soames , Arthur , 223 social mobility , 14-15 ...
-
John Evelyn and His World: A Biography
By John BowleJohn Evelyn and His World: A Biography