Breads of the English Husbandman and Woman, c. 1750
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28198Keywords:
breadmaking, cookbook history, mid 18th-century, staple foods, consumption, United Kingdom, The Country Housewife’s Companion, William Ellis, rural, home baking, agriculture, wheat varieties, home consumption, agricultural markets, farming economics, food regulationAbstract
The author explores possible reasons why with the exception of Gervase Markham at the beginning of the seventeenth century and William Ellis in the middle of the eighteenth, few authors of cookery books have written on breadmaking before 1800, looks at the historical records to estimate national levels of bread consumption in the 18th-century and then focuses what William Ellis's book, The Country Housewife’s Companion, can reveal about the economics of wheat farming in that era.
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