Recipes of Christmas Past
Recipes of Christmas Past
View examples from books in the University of Leeds Cookery Collection illustrating the stories behind some traditional Christmas dishes, and look at the variety of ways in which people have celebrated Christmas over the centuries.
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The plumb-pudding in danger: - or - state epicures taking un petit souper
James Gillray 'Plumb-pudding in danger' cartoon.
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This resource uses examples from books in the University of Leeds Cookery Collection to illustrate the stories behind some traditional Christmas dishes, and look at the variety of ways in which people have celebrated over the centuries.
The Cookery Collection includes nearly 10,000 books and 75 individual manuscripts covering not only recipes but also food production, brewing, household management, gardening and medicine, comprehensively representing the last 500 years of culinary and social history.
