Vegetable Cookery
1812 cookery book by Martha Brotherton
Author | Martha Brotherton [1] |
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Language | English |
Subject | Vegetarianism |
Genre | Cookery books |
Publisher | Effingham Wilson |
Publication date
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1812, 1833 |
Pages | 474 |
Vegetable Cookery: With an Introduction, Recommending Abstinence from Animal Food and Intoxicating Liquors is the first vegetarian cookbook, authored anonymously by Martha Brotherton (1783–1861) of Salford . It was first published as A New System of Vegetable Cookery in periodical form in 1812. [2] A second book edition appeared in 1821 and a third was published by Horatio Phillips of London in 1829 under its best known title Vegetable Cookery . [2]
The first edition was published anonymously by a "member of the Bible Christian Church ". [2] The fourth edition published in 1833 by Effingham Wilson , contained 1,261 recipes and was also published anonymously "by a lady". [2] Martha's husband Joseph Brotherton wrote the introduction for the book. Two further editions appeared in 1839 and 1852. [2] The 1852 edition contains a foreword by James Simpson, the first president of the Vegetarian Society . [3]
It was the first published vegetarian cookbook. [2] [4] Martha and Joseph Brotherton were leading members of William Cowherd's Bible Christian Church . [4] [5]
The recipes are ovo-lacto vegetarian . Many of the recipes involve copious amounts of butter . Historians have noted that "Brotherton's book served as a guide for Americans who began to self-identify as vegetarian in the early decades of the nineteenth century." [6] Kathryn Gleadle has written that the book "was enormously important to the movement, forming the basis of most subsequent works on vegetable cookery." [7]
References
- ↑ Cushing, William. (1888). Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises . New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. p. 180
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Antrobus, Derek. (1997). A Guiltless Feast: The Salford Bible Christian Church and the Rise of the Modern Vegetarian Movement . City of Salford Education and Leisure. p. 72. ISBN 978-0901952578
- ↑ "Old and Vintage Cookbooks" . Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- 1 2 Phelps, Norm. (2007). The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA . Lantern Books. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-59056-106-5
- ↑ Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret. (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-313-37556-9
- ↑ Baughman, James L; Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer; Danky, James P. (2015). Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent Since 1865 . University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 114–115. ISBN 978-0-299-30284-9
- ↑ Gleadle, Kathryn. The Age of Physiological Reformers: Rethinking Gender and Domesticity in the Age of Reform . In Arthur Burns, Joanna Innes. (2003). Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 . Cambridge University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-521-82394-3
External links
- Vegetable Cookery: With an Introduction, Recommending Abstinence from Animal Food and Intoxicating Liquors (1833 edition)