The art of cookery, made plain and easy

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1. helsinkiandrewAug 2020
   I recently read and was amazed that ”The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy“ by Hannah Glasse, published in 1747 was a best seller around the English speaking world for over a hundred years.

   “We had emancipated ourselves from the sceptre of King George, but that of Hannah Glasse was extended without challenge over our fire-sides and dinner-tables, with a sway far more imperative and absolute"

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2. kazinatorDec 2025
   > a gritty gruel of salty flakes coated with the oleic pall of margarine.

   Yuck; you're supposed to use milk, and butter.

   > Hannah Glasse’s procedure published in 1747 in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy is, minus the long s’s, still just about how I make them today:[with real potatoes, milk and butter]:

   Exactly.

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