Having Their Cake: Ingredients and Recipe Collecting in the Nineteenth Century

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6 novembre 2014

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The Recipes Project

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Rachel A. Snell, « Having Their Cake: Ingredients and Recipe Collecting in the Nineteenth Century », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcs5

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By Rachel A. Snell Between 1835 and 1870, Sarah L. Weld of Cambridge, Massachusetts collected twenty-three recipes for gingerbread. This repetition of recipes, particularly recipes for baked goods, was not uncommon in nineteenth-century recipe collections. In fact, it was the norm. In my last post, I offered three explanations for the prevalence of cake recipes in the manuscript cookbooks I study: evolving technology, new ingredients, and shifting social expectations that are indicative of c...

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