A Study of Yorkshire Parkin and Gingerbread

Description

A dissertation comprising four chapters. The first outlines the Yorkshire housekeeping tradition, especially as related to parkin and gingerbread, and includes recipes for wines and punches suitable for drinking with the latter. This chapter also describes the sources of the recipes, and provides printed examples received from informants who responded to the collector's letter, printed in the 'Yorkshire Evening Post'. The second chapter discusses some of the recipes received, and their ingredients. The third chapter covers linguistic material related to parkin, gingerbread and related calendar customs. This includes the etymology of the word parkin, sayings connected with parkin, and rhymes possibly connected with the custom of soulcaking. The final chapter suggests reasons why the eating of parkin has become associated with particular calendar customs observed in the month of November (principally, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Plot Night (Guy Fawkes Night) and Martinmas. Reference is also made to All Hallows Eve, October 31st).

Metadata

Identifier vqnzc9yj
IRN 410085
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/049
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vqnzc9yj
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Marsh, Patricia
Date 1971
Size and Medium 44 unbound typed leaves. Photocopy.

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