Rice Pudding
Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Rice Pudding
Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

Rice Pudding

To make a Rice pudding to bake
Take three Pints of Milk or more, and put therein a quarter of a Pound of Rice, clean washed and picked, then set them over the fire, and let them warm together, and often stir them with a wooden Spoon, because that will not scrape too hard at the bottom, to make it burn, then let it boil till it be very thick, then take it off and let it cool, then put in a little Salt, some beaten Spice, some Raisins and Currans, and some Marrow, or Beef Suet shred very small, then butter your Pan, and so bake it, but not too much

 

Rice Pudding Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe
The above Old dessert recipe for Rice Pudding is written in totally different way to today's recipe books!

  • There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text

  • Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified!

  • Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified!

  • Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide!

  • It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

The History of the Recipe Book

  • Some of the language might be referred to as 'Olde English'

  • The art of cooking and the recipe was passed verbally from one generation to the next

  • The first printed book ever to be published in English was in 1474!

  • Most Elizabethan women were unable to read!

  • The idea of a Recipe Book was an entirely new concept

  • The first Recipe Books to be printed in England which included many old Elizabethan and Medieval recipes were called:

    • 1545 - 'A Propre new booke of Cokery'

    • 1588 - 'The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her kitchen'

    • 1596 - 'The Good Hyswife's Jewell'

    • 1610 'Mrs. Sarah Longe her Receipt Booke'

Rice Pudding Old Elizabethan Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from the book by Hannah Woolley (1622-1675) printed at the White Lion in Duck-Lane, near West-Smithfield, London in 1672 and entitled:

The Queen-like Closet
OR
RICH CABINET
Scored with all manner of
RARE RECEIPTS
FOR
Preserving, Candying and Cookery

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Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Rice Pudding
Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

 

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