On the Development of the English Culinary Recipe

• Authors: Bator Magdalena , Bator Magdalena

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On the Development of the English Culinary Recipe

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The earliest culinary recipes found in England were written in Anglo-Norman and they date back to the end of the 13th century (cf. Hieatt & Jones 1986). ­e rst English instructions were mostly translated from these. It is the 14th and 15th centuries when the text type was thriving. Scully (1995: 5) calls the period “a hey-day for medieval cookery,” due to the greater availability of the culinary texts comparing to the earlier times. ­us, a discussion of the evolution of the English recipe should start from the 14th century. ­e majority of the available studies deal with the particular features of the culinary instruction, as for instance Culy (1996) who discusses the use of null objects. ­e main focus of the present paper is to provide a brief comparison of some selected features of the culinary recipes at different stages of their development. ­e discussion will proceed from the earliest available English culinary material, i.e., the medieval recipe, through the early Modern English texts to the contemporary cooking instructions. ­e issues which will be taken into consideration are: (i) the general structure of the recipe, especially the components found in the earliest texts, i.e., the heading and the procedure; (ii) the function of the recipe in the particular periods; and (iii) the intended audience for whom the recipes were written down.

Keywords

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culinary recipe; structure; function; audience

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 7-15

Contributors

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Bator Magdalena

• University of Social Sciences, Warsaw

author

Bator Magdalena

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DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2016.5