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| - Ingredients for Black-Birds - an Old Elizabethan Recipe
- Cooking method for Black-Birds
- Black-Birds - Old Elizabethan Recipe
- Have fun reading this Black-Birds old recipe
- What food people ate during the Renaissance era
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Black-Birds Old Elizabethan Recipe Black-Birds
To bake Woodcocks, Black-birds Sparrows or Larks
Truss and parboil them, then season them with Pepper and Salt, and put them into a Pie with good store of Butter, and so bake them, then fill them up with Butter |
| | Black-Birds Old Elizabethan Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from for Black-Birds 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
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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'
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Black-Birds 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 entitled: The Queen-like Closet
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Black-Birds Old Elizabethan Recipe- Ingredients for Black-Birds - an Old Elizabethan Recipe
- Cooking method for Black-Birds
- Free Black-Birds - Old Elizabethan Recipe
- Have fun reading this Black-Birds old recipe
- What food people ate during the Renaissance era
- The cooking instructions used
- The different types of food used in old recipes
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