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Seen Over the Ether: Hannah Glasse and The Art of Cookery

June 24, 2008 by Vic

These days, a new cookbook seems to be published every day. Over 100 years ago Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management reigned supreme in England. Preceding her by well over a hundred years was Hannah Glasse, the author of The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. In a 2007 Journal Live article, which includes a biographical sketch of Hannah, Jane Hall writes:

She was not a professional cook, however, her expertise lying in dressmaking. Yet when The Art of Cookery was published it was an instant success. Equally popular with ladies of the house and domestic cooks and servants, it would go on to be reprinted in no less than 26 editions – and is still available today.

The book was intended as an instruction manual for servants: “the lower sort,” as she called them.

During the 1700s there was a fashion for books of this kind, which were designed to save the lady of the house from the tedious duty of instructing her kitchen maids. As Hannah said, the book should “improve the Servants and save the Ladies a great deal of Trouble.”

As with some predominant attitudes of today, women cooks were considered to be vastly inferior to male chefs:

In male-dominated Georgian England, it was assumed a woman couldn’t have written such an eloquent and well-organised work. Leading literary figure Dr Samuel Johnson famously said of Hannah’s effort: “Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.” He promised to write the best collection of recipes ever; he never got around to it.

The following is a list of Hannah’s food for this month – June: The products of the kitchen and fruit garden

ASPARAGUS, garden beans and pease, kidney beans, cauliflowers, artichokes, Battersea and Dutch cabbage, melons on the first ridges, young onions, carrots and parsnips sown in February, purslain, burrage,burnet, the flowers of nasturtian, the Dutch brown, the imperial, the royal, the Silesia and cofs lettuces, some blanched endive and cucumbers. and all sorts of pot herbs.

Green gooseberries, strawberries, some raspberries, currants, white and black duke cherries, red harts, the Flemish and carnation cherries, codlings, jannatings, and the masculine apricot And in the forcing frames all the forward kind of grapes The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published … By Hannah Glasse

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  1. on December 20, 2008 at 14:18 A Regency Meal in December « Jane Austen’s World

    […] Hannah Glasse and the Arte of Cookery […]


  2. on November 26, 2009 at 01:39 Family Dinners, Regency Style « Jane Austen's World

    […] Hannah Glasse and the Art of Cookery […]


  3. on June 5, 2011 at 18:23 CHEF STEVE

    HI:

    I CAN’T TELL IF YOU COOKBOOK : Hannah Glasse and The Art of Cookery June 24, 2008 IS A HARD COVER BOOK OR PAPERBACK??

    I WANT A HARD COVER BOOK ?? CAN YOU HELP ME ??

    CHEF STEVE


  4. on June 12, 2011 at 14:27 Hannah Glasse’s Connection to the Hamburger « Jane Austen's World

    […] Hannah Glasse and The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy […]



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