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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums‘Please pass the hedgehog pudding’: holiday recipes from Yale’s collections
http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/23/please-pass-hedgehog-pudding-holiday-recipes-yale-s-collectionsFortunately, there is no shortage of websites, magazines, and cookbooks offering advice on planning and executing the perfect holiday meal. Yales collections also contain rich and varied resources to help even the most inexperienced cooks treat their guests to a unique, if not delicious, Thanksgiving dinner.
For instance, the Yale Babylonian Collection provides an opportunity to take dinner guests on trip through time to the very cradle of civilization. The collection boasts the worlds oldest known cookbooks: three Akkadian clay tablets that date to about 1750 B.C. and contain recipes for meat and vegetarian dishes, including an assortment of stews. The cuneiform writing presents an obstacle, but modern interpretations are available online.
Those hosting a literary crowd might consider Edith Whartons pudding recipe or this salad dressing from poet Marianne Moore. Both reside in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
A recipe book from 1750s England in the Beineckes Osborn Collection offers 502 recipes in 14 categories, including creams and cheeses, wet sweet meats, puddings and pyes, and possetts and sillibubs. (A posset is a hot beverage of milk curdled with wine or ale. A syllabub is a sweet dish made with cream.)
For instance, the Yale Babylonian Collection provides an opportunity to take dinner guests on trip through time to the very cradle of civilization. The collection boasts the worlds oldest known cookbooks: three Akkadian clay tablets that date to about 1750 B.C. and contain recipes for meat and vegetarian dishes, including an assortment of stews. The cuneiform writing presents an obstacle, but modern interpretations are available online.
Those hosting a literary crowd might consider Edith Whartons pudding recipe or this salad dressing from poet Marianne Moore. Both reside in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
A recipe book from 1750s England in the Beineckes Osborn Collection offers 502 recipes in 14 categories, including creams and cheeses, wet sweet meats, puddings and pyes, and possetts and sillibubs. (A posset is a hot beverage of milk curdled with wine or ale. A syllabub is a sweet dish made with cream.)
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‘Please pass the hedgehog pudding’: holiday recipes from Yale’s collections (Original Post)
KamaAina
Nov 2015
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The Beinecke is a treasure. Mellon's British Museum has had wonderful exhibits but
CTyankee
Nov 2015
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CTyankee
(63,926 posts)1. The Beinecke is a treasure. Mellon's British Museum has had wonderful exhibits but
I believe it is still closed for renovations. I'll never forget its Edwardian exhibit which I loved so much I saw it twice and harassed all my friends in New Haven to go to. And they thanked me for it!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. I had a lecture course in the British Museum auditorium
Poets and Prophets of the 20th Century with Louis Martz. I sat way in the back next to a female classmate who used crutches. Alas, she was taken.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)3. Great sounding class...
That museum can't be very old, tho, IIRC...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Well, it was there in '83
it may have been rebuilt since then.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)5. nope, it opened in 1974...