John Evelyn Cook : The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn

Evelyn, John

ISBN 10: 0907325653 / ISBN 13: 9780907325659

Edité par Prospect Books, Totnes, 1997

A propos de cet article

214 pages. John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a virtuoso, scholar and man of letters of Restoration England. Among his manuscripts is a volume of receipts or recipes for the stillroom, the sickroom and the kitchen. Those of cookery are reprinted here: in an edition that includes a full glossary, index of ingredients and biographical introduction.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: John Evelyn Cook : The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn
• Éditeur: Prospect Books, Totnes
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0907325653
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780907325659
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Cookery - History and Reference
  • Cookery

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Synopsis

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 has an added attraction: it contains the recipes that Evelyn later printed in his book about salads, Acetaria. No other printed cookery book from this period can demonstrate this development of a recipe from first inception to the finished page.

À propos de l?auteur

A founder member of the Royal Society, diarist, traveller, gardener and influential thinker, and writer on these and other subjects. Evelyn does not deserve to be overshadowed by his contemporary, Samuel Pepys. The recipes range over the repertoire of the 17th-century household and contain many recipes given to Evelyn by his friends, including a recipe for gooseberry wine attributed to Sir Christopher Wren.