First Catch Your Gingerbread
Published on 10. December 2020
256 pages
978-0-7145-2021-6 (ISBN)
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Sam Bilton is a food historian, who runs the Repast Supper Club, food events with a historical theme. She is also a food and drink writer, with articles appearing in magazines and online, with English Heritage, and she works on historical recipes, recreating them for the modern day, including an eighteenth-century recipe for a Bride Cake. Sam is a member of the Guild of Food Writers Committee, and on several panels.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
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- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- PART I: THE STORY OF GINGERBREAD
- INTRODUCTIONWHAT IS IT ABOUT GINGERBREAD?
- CHAPTER ONEANCIENT ORIGINS OF GINGERBREAD
- CHAPTER TWOMEDIEVAL GINGERGREAD
- CHAPTER THREEEVERYMAN'S GINGERBREAD
- CHAPTER FOURGINGERBREAD CREATIONS
- CHAPTER FIVEALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR
- CHAPTER SIXDECLINE AND RISE OF GINGERBREAD
- PART II: THE RECIPES
- BISCUITS, WAFERS & GRIDDLE CAKES
- BREAD & YEASTED CAKES
- GINGERBREAD CAKES
- SAVOURIES
- DESSERTS & SWEETMEATS
- MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- RECIPE INDEX
- GENERAL INDEX
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- DEDICATION
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