The Traditional Cookery of a Yorkshire Housewife
Description
A study of one Yorkshire woman's cooking and baking traditions, and her use of recipes and methods of cooking passed on to her from her mother and grandmother. The study begins with a brief section on the food eaten by the average working man in Yorkshire in the nineteenth century, tracing how trends in food gradually changed during the course of that century as more work, more money and more varied and substantial foods became available. This historical survey is followed by two sections on the informant's life. The first examines her life at home with her mother, and how she developed her love for baking, whilst the second looks at her married life, tracing changes in cooking and eating habits due to such factors as economic depression and World War Two. A number of the informant's recipes are included, copied from her own manuscript cookery book. The final section comprises traditional remedies and sayings concerning food remembered and used by the informant. An Index of Recipes is included, and an Appendix contains a transcript of an interview with the informant, recorded in her home in Brighouse in September 1976.
Metadata
| Identifier | stfs6d5x |
| IRN | 410108 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/072 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/stfs6d5x |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Starkey, Helen |
| Date | 1977 |
| Size and Medium | 100, xxvi, unbound typed leaves; 6 colour photographs. |