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Over a Red Hot Stove - Essays in Early Cooking Technology (Hardcover, New)
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Over a Red Hot Stove - Essays in Early Cooking Technology (Hardcover, New)
Series: Food and Society, No. 14
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These essays were presented at the seventeenth Leeds Symposium on
Food History, of which this is the fourteenth volume in the series
'Food and Society.' Their common theme is the way in which we
cooked our food from the medieval to the modern eras, most
especially, how we roasted meats. The authors are distinguished
food historians, mostly from the north of England. David Eveleigh
discusses the rise of the kitchen range, from the 19th-century
coal-fired monsters to the electric and gas cookers of the early
20th century. Ivan Day, in two essays, talks about techniques of
roasting. In the first he tells of the ox roast - the open-air
celebration with the cooking done on a blazing campfire. In the
second he traces the history of the clockwork spit, the final, most
domestic version of the open-hearth device that had been driven by
dogs or scullions in earlier centuries. Peter Brears gives us the
fruits of many years' involvement in the reconstruction of the
kitchens at Hampton Court and other Royal Palaces in his account of
roasting, specifically the 'baron of beef', in these important
locales. The final two chapters discuss aspects of baking rather
than roasting. Laura Mason tells of the English reliance on yeast
as a raising agent - in the earliest times deriving it from brewing
ale, and Susan McClellan Plaisted gives an account of running a
masonry wood-fired oven in living-history museums in America,
discussing the transmission of cooking techniques from the Old to
the New World, and the problems encountered in baking a
satisfactory loaf. The book is very generously illustrated, both by
photographs of artefacts and reproductions of early prints and
engravings that elucidate their purpose and function.
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