Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
330多本食谱,出版时间从1730年查尔斯·卡特(Charles Carter)著《实用烹饪大全》(The Complete Practical Cook),到1883年在纽约出版的苏珊·安娜·布朗(Susan Anna Brown)著《吉尔平太太的节俭妙招:剩菜以及200种利用它们的方法》(Mrs. Gilpin's frugalities: remnants, and 200 ways of using them),再到1952年在印第安纳波利斯出版的露丝·艾伦·丘奇(Ruth Ellen Church)著《玛丽·米德的神奇电动搅拌机配方》(Mary Meade's magic recipes for the electric blender)。这套令人愉悦的档案包含几个世纪的厨房食谱、家庭医药配方、家务建议、实用省钱烹饪方法、上菜技巧和餐桌礼仪、家庭管理指南、如何自己种菜、如何挑选和购买食物等等。“食物的历史”展现出人们食用的食物类别、不同文化的菜肴,以及人类饮食的多元化。
在1742年于弗吉尼亚出版的伊莉莎·史密斯(Eliza Smith)的《主妇大全》(The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors)一书中,你不但能够看到超长的书名,还能了解到无数厨房食谱和家庭治疗方法。
伦敦杜克街的莎拉·菲利普夫人(Mrs. Sarah Phillips)不甘示弱,在1758年出版了《夫人小姐们的侍女》(The ladies handmaid, or, A compleat system of cookery; on the principals of elegance and frugality : wherein the useful art of cookery is rendered plain, easy and familiar : containing the best approved, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of housewifry ... : together with instructions for carving and bills of fare for every month in the year ... : also the best approved method of clear-starching)一书。
该档案收录19部手抄食谱,主要来自新英格兰和大西洋中部地区,少部分来自英国。这些食谱创作于1669年到20世纪初,大部分出自19世纪。这些独特的书籍,大部分由女性创作和编撰,是对他们生活经验的宝贵记录。他们记录下历史上的食物成分、食品处理技术、出版和未出版的食谱,以及药物治疗方法和家庭食谱。
为了方便检索,手写文本识别技术已经应用于“19世纪手抄食谱,1669-1910年”。
来源图书馆:Winterthur Museum 温特图尔博物馆
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