Hanna Glasse 310

[Loyalist Dave]

Remarkably, Google observed the 310th birthday of Mrs. Hanna Glasse, Author of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, c. 1747, as well as the author of The Complete Confectioner; or The Housekeeper's Guide c. 1755. These two works, especially The Art of Cookery, provide recipes that may be used for replication of authentic dishes for the F&I War and later time periods.

Here is a link to a 1774 printing of The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. IF one would like to compare it to an earlier version (Mrs. Glasse sold the copywrite during her lifetime) here it is in the 1767 verson , and here it is again in the 1796 version, though all the versions list the author as "by a lady", the record of the sale of the copywrite confirms the identity of the author :wink:

An online version may be found of The Complete Confectioner but this was "corrected" when published in 1800, 45 years after the original, so from this version one cannot determine the add portions. Interesting too, is the fact that the original author is listed as Mrs. H. Glass, which was a mistaken spelling of her proper last name Glasse.

Some of the fun of the old recipes is conversion to modern ingredients or simply reducing the size of the dish to what's needed for one or two people.

LD

 

[Hairy Clipper]

Thank you for posting this. I, too, am interested in old recipes, although now and then I run into some ingredient that I have no idea what they are talking about. This happened frequently 45 years ago and now with the advent of the Internet my puzzlement can be reduced to minutes or seconds rather than the sometimes seemingly weeks on end. I was lucky enough to acquire my paternal grandmother's recipe book after she passed away and would trade in an instant of a file of hand written recipes she had that were not only in her hand but that of other relatives many of which were in German that were written down in "the old country". Of course I would either have to learn German or get better at typing into the online translators.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Not surprising...Google is a big "foodie".
The Google campus has 17 gourmet cafés, complete with 700 culinary staffers and 20 chefs. They serve food 24/7.

 

[tenngun]

Townsend introduced me to Miss Hannah and I’m happy to have met her.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

YES they reference her in some of their cooking videos.

LD