The Twelve Cakes of Christmas

An evolutionary history, with recipes

Helen Leach, Mary Brown (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2011
Otago University Press (Verlag)
978-1-877578-19-9 (ISBN)

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Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they identify recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full of expensive ingredients like raisins, almonds, sweet wine and candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast.

Helen Leach ONZM is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She has a special interest in the anthropology of domestic life, including cooking and gardening. With her sisters Mary Browne and Nancy Tichborne, she has co-authored ten books on growing and cooking vegetables and on bread making. Her most recent book is Kitchens, a history of the New Zealand kitchen in the 20th century. She was awarded a Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Medal for contributions in Garden History in 2008. In 2019 she became an Associate of Honour in the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (AHRIH).

Introduction; In Search of the 17th Century Twelfth Cake -- Sir Kenelm Digby's Recipe; 18th Century Twelfth Cakes - Hannah Glasse's Recipe; From Twelfth Cake to Christmas Cake - Isabella Beeton's Recipe; Christmas Cakes in the 20th Century: Facts & Figures; Christmas Cakes from the Last Hundred Years -- Nine Historic Cake Recipes with Photographs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2022
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Dunedin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 254 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Backen
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-877578-19-3 / 1877578193
ISBN-13	978-1-877578-19-9 / 9781877578199
Zustand	Neuware