Hannah Woolley’s Bisket Pudding
A few weeks ago I prepared a dish of “Portugal Eggs,” a complicated banqueting dish with many elements, from MS Codex 785. Like the recipe for “Lemmon Cakes” I posted a while ago, this recipe was...
View ArticleMargaret Baker’s sacke possett & fine biskett, or a year with Folger MS V.a.619
It’s an interesting experience to spend months with a single recipe book. This year I collaborated with an undergraduate student, Rachael Shulman, on a year-long research project centered around...
View ArticleTo Make bisket, a recipe from the Baumfylde manuscript
Later this spring, I’m flying to Los Angeles to participate in a workshop entitled “Transcribing and Interpreting Digital Recipe Manuscripts” at the Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting...
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To make portugal Eggs
This post draws on research from an article that I published in the collection After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. Hannah Woolley was an all-around lifestyle guru who not only wrote...
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Christian Barclay’s Sugar Bisket
Bake this recipe between September 30 – October 8 to participate in the fourth annual Great Rare Books Bakeoff! (More information at the end of the post.) Many thanks to my Barclay Project...
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