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Date: 1914: Source: The 'Sure to Rise' Cookery Book, New Zealand Electronic Text Collection: Author: T J Edmonds: Permission (Reusing this file)The source specifies a CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence, however as the book was published in 1914 and T J Edmonds died on 3 June 1932, meaning the book is now in the public domain in the USA.
The ingredients are not listed. Quantities, if mentioned at all, are simply included in the text, as "an Egg or two", relying on the cook's judgement as to the exact quantity needed. Cooking conditions are similarly mentioned only in passing, as "over a gentle Fire". For example: [4] To make an Amlet of Asparagus
British cookery books and recipes, especially those from the days before the UK's partial metrication, commonly use two or more of the aforesaid units simultaneously: for example, the same recipe may call for a ‘tumblerful’ of one ingredient and a ‘wineglassful’ of another one; or a ‘breakfastcupful’ or ‘cupful’ of one ...
The Accomplisht Cook is an English cookery book published by the professional cook Robert May in 1660, and the first to group recipes logically into 24 sections. It was much the largest cookery book in England up to that time, providing numerous recipes for boiling, roasting, and frying meat, and others for salads, puddings, sauces, and baking.
A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery is an English cookery book by Mary Kettilby and others, first published in 1714 by Richard Wilkin. The book contains early recipes for plum (Christmas) pudding and suet pudding , and the first printed recipe for orange marmalade (without chunks).
This Is the Boke of Cokery, or The Boke of Cokery, is believed to be the first cookery book printed in English. The name of the author is unknown. It was printed and published by Richard Pynson in 1500. The book remained in print for many years in the 16th century, but was superseded and forgotten by the 18th.
The Lady's Complete Guide, or Cookery in All its Branches by Mary Cole (fl 1788–1791) is a pioneering cookery book, the first in English that systematically ascribed recipes to their authors, where known. It was first published in 1788 and was followed by revised editions in 1789 and 1791.
The book is important as it is one of the first cookery books in English aimed at a more general reader and also at a more female audience who might not have cooked before. [2] As result the recipes are fuller than their medieval equivalents, with indications of amounts for ingredients and cooking times.