Bibliography
Madeline Shanahan
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Contributions to journals
Shanahan, Madeline, “‘Whipt with a twig rod’: Irish manuscript recipe books as sources for the study of culinary material culture, c. 1660 to 1830”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115 C (2015): 197–218.
abstract:
From the mid- to late seventeenth century on women from the elite classes in Ireland started to write and exchange recipes, which they recorded in domestic manuscripts. Cultural imports to Ireland at this time, these manuscripts are excellent sources for the study of food, giving us a window into the early modern kitchen during a period of great culinary change. This paper will begin by briefly outlining the development of recipe writing as a genre in Ireland, considering issues such as chronology, authorship and content. The second part of the paper will focus more specifically on what these sources can tell us about material culture relating to cookery within high-status Irish homes of this period. By considering the objects mentioned, as well as the way in which they were described, the paper will discuss not simply what people owned, but also, what patterns of naming can tell us about these people's changing relationships with goods, and an emerging consumer identity.
abstract:
From the mid- to late seventeenth century on women from the elite classes in Ireland started to write and exchange recipes, which they recorded in domestic manuscripts. Cultural imports to Ireland at this time, these manuscripts are excellent sources for the study of food, giving us a window into the early modern kitchen during a period of great culinary change. This paper will begin by briefly outlining the development of recipe writing as a genre in Ireland, considering issues such as chronology, authorship and content. The second part of the paper will focus more specifically on what these sources can tell us about material culture relating to cookery within high-status Irish homes of this period. By considering the objects mentioned, as well as the way in which they were described, the paper will discuss not simply what people owned, but also, what patterns of naming can tell us about these people's changing relationships with goods, and an emerging consumer identity.
