Book of Marmalade

Name: Book of Marmalade
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ISBN: 9780812217278

ISBN-10: 0812217276

ISBN-13: 9780812217278

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: C. Anne Wilson

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Here is everything you need to know about marmalade. C. Anne Wilson, Britain's foremost historian of food, traces the history of this most British of preserves from its Roman and medieval antecedents, through its adoption in Tudor England, its development in Stuart and Georgian Britain, and its fortunes up to the present day. She tells how the Portuguese learned from the Moors to eat quince marmalade, and how its characteristic Arab flavorings enhanced its appeal to the Europeans. Marmalade's varied roles--as a gift, as a sweetmeat, as a medicine, and as an aphrodisiac-are all discussed in The Book of Marmalade. The book concludes with dozens of recipes, new and traditional, in which…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.506

Preface to the Revised Edition	p. 11
Preface to the First Edition	p. 13
Marmalade and its Forerunners	p. 15
'Foreign and Home-Bred Marmalades': Tudor and Stuart England	p. 29
Orange Marmalade in England: The Beginnings	p. 44
Marmalade in Scotland: The Beginnings	p. 56
Orange Marmalade: The Years of Expansion	p. 66
Home-Made Marmalade Yesterday and Today	p. 81
The Marmalade Market Yesterday and Today	p. 91
Tastes in Marmalade Yesterday and Today	p. 110
Marmalade in the Wider World	p. 119
References	p. 137
Cookery-book bibliography	p. 143
Recipes	p. 145
General index	p. 175
Index of recipes	p. 183
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