Cooking and Dining in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Cooking and Dining in Tudor and Early Stuart England PDF Author: Peter C. D. Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781909248328
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the medieval styles of Henry VII and VIII, then introducing new foodstuffs from America, finishing with the Stuart kings.

Cooking and Dining in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Cooking and Dining in Tudor and Early Stuart England PDF Author: Peter C. D. Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781909248328
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the medieval styles of Henry VII and VIII, then introducing new foodstuffs from America, finishing with the Stuart kings.

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England PDF Author: Peter C. D. Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781903018873
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The history of medieval food and cookery has received a fair amount of attention from the point of view of recipes (of which many survive) and of the general context of feasts and feasting. It has never, as yet, been studied with an eye to the real mechanics of food production and service: the equipment used, the household organisation, the architectural arrangements for kitchens, store-rooms, pantries, larders, cellars, and domestic administration. This new work by Peter Brears, perhaps Britain's foremost experton the historical kitchen, looks at these important elements of cooking and dining. He also subjects the many surviving documents relating to food service ? household ordinances, regulations and commentaries ? to critical study in an attempt to reconstruct the precise rituals and customs of dinner.An underlying intention is to rehabilitate the medieval Englishman as someone with a nice appreciation of food and cookery, decent manners, and a delicate sense of propriety and seemliness. To dispel the myth, that is, of medieval feasting as an orgy of gluttony and bad manners, usually provided with meat that has gone slightly off, masked by liberal additions of heady spices.A series of chapters looks at the cooking departments in large households: the counting house, dairy, brewhouse, pastry, boiling house and kitchen. These are illustrated by architectural perspectives of surviving examples in castles and manor houses throughout the land. Then there are chapters dealing with the various sorts of kitchen equipment: fires, fuel, pots and pans. Sections are then devoted to recipes and types of food cooked. The recipes are those which have been used and tested by Peter Brears in hundreds of demonstrations to the public and cooking for museum displays. Finally there are chapters on the service of dinner (the service departments including the buttery, pantry and ewery) and the rituals that grew up around these. Here, Peter Brears has drawn a wonderful strip cartoon of the serving of a great feast (the washing of hands, the delivery of napery, the tasting for poison, etc.) which will be of permanent utility to historical re-enactors who wish to get their details right.

All the King's Cooks

All the King's Cooks PDF Author: Peter Brears
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 0285640232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor England. Including authentic recipes from the period, adapted for modern kitchens, such as Chicken Farced and Smothered Rabbit and White Leach (a form of cool jelly), All the King's Cooks is fully illustrated with colour photographs recreating the life of the kitchens. With the author's own detailed drawings, no other book gets so close to the sights, sounds and smells of the Tudor kitchen.

Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House

Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House PDF Author: Peter Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books
ISBN: 9781909248793
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For centuries the food cooked in our country houses was the finest available, its variety greatly expanded by Victorian investment in new technology and professional cooks who were employed in the country houses. Adventurous, international trade in the Victorian period also meant that new ingredients became available. This great culinary tradition began its decline around the time of the First World War, and collapsed with the outbreak of war in 1939. Now, over eighty years later, it remains forgotten, as even those who experienced its final stages have passed away. Hopefully Peter Brears' book will go a long way in reviving interest in it, and encouraging further appreciation and enjoyment of all its diverse aspects.

The Tudor Cookbook

The Tudor Cookbook PDF Author: Terry Breverton
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445649039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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What the Tudors ate and drank in 400 authentic recipes

Food and Feast in Tudor England

Food and Feast in Tudor England PDF Author: Alison Sim
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495429
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets. Alison Sim shows that dining habits in the sixteenth century were not the same as those of the Middle Ages and that Tudor dining, at least for the wealthier section of the population, was much more sophisticated than it is generally given credit for.

The Tudor Kitchen

The Tudor Kitchen PDF Author: Terry Breverton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445660400
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? A fascinating history of Tudor food and drink, from swan-neck soup to roasted-alive goose.

Traditional Food in Yorkshire

Traditional Food in Yorkshire PDF Author: Peter Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781909248335
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There has been no serious consideration of local food in England. Most available material is lightweight, not very informative, and a waste of time for serious students. Prospect Books is about to change this, in the first instance with respect to the north country. Last year Peter Brears published Traditional Food in Northumbria (Excellent Press). This title has now been taken on by Prospect Books. The next county for treatment is Yorkshire, the author's home. He has already written on this subject (John Donald, 1987) but this new work is double the length, with many more illustrations and supporting material.The book opens with a survey of the various economic and social groups in the county. progresses to a study of cooking, fuel and installations, then concentrates in a series of single subject chapters on staple foods - porridge, oatcake, bread, meat, fish, puddings, and cakes. There then follows chapters on dairy products and drinks, and closes with a folkloric survey of feats, fairs and calendar customers, and rites of passage such as headwashings, weddings and funerals.

The Petworth Book of Country House Cookery

The Petworth Book of Country House Cookery PDF Author: Peter Brears
Publisher: Prospect Books
ISBN: 9781909248434
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The history of the Petworth House is varied and fascinating, and the kitchens dealt with everything from eels to venison.

DINING WITH THE COMMONER PEOPLE.

DINING WITH THE COMMONER PEOPLE. PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858043401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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