British Isles

British Isles

46 projects. Showing results 21 through 40.

Plenti and Grase

Food and Drink in a Sixteenth-Century Household

Mark Dawson, Independent Scholar
coloured drawing of an orange pot with a ladle handle and steam coming out of it

Soup

Eileen White, Historian
18th century cartoon of british soldiers in a tea room eating sherberts

Sugar-plums and Sherbert

The Prehistory of Sweets

Laura Mason (1957-2021) Food Historian

Sussex Recipe Book

With a few excursions into Kent

colour photo of various cakes and biscuits arranged on a table

Sweet Slices of History

Baking & Cakes

Marjory Szurko, Librarian

The Accomplisht Cook (1660/85)

or, the art and mystery of cookery

Robert May, Chef and Cookbook Author, (1588-circa 1664), Biographical Introduction by Marcus Bell, Foreword by Alan Davidson, Diplomat and Food Historian, (1924-2003)

The Art of Cookery

John Thacker, 18th-Century Cook to Dean of Durham Cathedral
Woodcut showing a page serving at a lord's high table

The Boke of Keruynge

(The Book of Carving)

Wynkyn de Worde, Medieval Printer, Edited by Peter Brears, Food Historian and Consultant

The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt., Opened (1669)

Sir Kenelm Digby, Courtier, Diplomat, Philosopher, (1603-1665), Peter Davidson, University of Oxford & Jane Stevenson, University of Oxford (Volume Editors)

The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie

Charlotte Clark (1824–1897) Diplomatic Wife, Hostess & Recipe Collector
book cover

The Country Housewife’s Family Companion (1750)

William Ellis (1700-1750), Agriculturalist & Writer

The Culinary Recipes of Medieval England

Compiled and Translated by Constance B. Hiett, Medieval Historian (1928-2011)

The English Cookery Book

Eileen White, Historian, (Volume Editor)

The English Kitchen

Historical Essays

Eileen White, Historian
book cover features purported portrait of Raffald

The Experienced English Housekeeper

Elizabeth Raffald, 18th Century Cook, Housekeeper & Business Woman

The Gentlewomans Companion (1675) or, A Guide to the Female Sex

Hannah Woolley, Author and Educator, (c.1622 – in or after 1675)

The Good Housewife's Jewel

Thomas Dawson, 16th Century Cookery Writer, Edited by Maggie Black, Food Writer
kitchen at Petworth House showing long table in kitchen probably set for the servants' main meal

The Petworth Book of Country House Cooking

Peter Brears, Food Historian and Consultant

The Tavern Cook

Eighteenth-Century Dining through the Recipes of Richard Briggs

Marc Meltonville, Food Historian, Heritage Distiller & Consultant

The Treatise of Walter of Bibbesworth

Translated with Commentary by Andrew Darby, Food Historian and Classicist