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A Treatise on the Art of Bread-making: Wherein, the Mealing Trade, Assize Laws, and Every Circumstance Connected with the Art, is Particularly Examined by Abraham Edlin (Paperback, 2003)

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Author: Abraham Edlin. Title: A Treatise on the Art of Bread-making. Genre: Food & Drink. Format: Paperback. Edition: Facsimile of 1805 ed. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Contributor: Tom Jaine (Edited by).

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A Treatise on the Art of Bread-Making was published in London in 1805, the work of a medical man, little kwn for any other books, save a couple of pamphlets on gout and sore throats and fever, which he observed in his native Uxbridge in Middlesex. His book on bread is by means medical, but rather an entertaining and instructive tour through the whole process of bread-making from growing and harvesting the wheat, to developing satisfactory yeasts, running an effective bakehouse and investigating a whole variety of recipes for breads made t only from wheat, but also other grains, potatoes and rice. The book ends with a resume of current law relating to the sale of bread, and an appendix containing the witness statements to a parliamentary committee on baking in 1804. The literature of bread-making in Britain is by means as full as that on the continent of Europe. Because baking was a trade craft, practised by people barely on the verge of literacy, most instructions and technical lore were transmitted by word of mouth from master to apprentice down through the years. These instructions were deemed 'secrets' and the very idea of publishing them in a printed book would have been anathema. For this reason, there are surprisingly few recipes in domestic cookery books of the period, the authors reckoning that cooks would leave it to the bakers. The literature did t really kick off until the Victorian period, and only rose to a flood in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. After Edlin, the next person to tackle the subject was a trained baker in 1828; the value, therefore, of this first book is especially great, as others exist.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Prospect Books
ISBN-10
190301834x
ISBN-13
9781903018347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104692672

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Blackawton
Edited by
Tom Jaine
Author Biography
Published in London in 1805, it was the work of a medical man, little known for any other books, save a couple of pamphlets on gout and sore throats and fever, which he observed in his native Uxbridge in Middlesex.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Abraham Edlin
Date of Publication
02/12/2003
Subject
Food & Drink: General
Edition Statement
Facsimile of 1805 Ed
Imprint
Prospect Books
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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