COLLECTION NAME:
Beer, Food, and Home Comfort: Domestic Collections at WMU
Record
Identifier:
exws_FamMag
Title:
Complete Family Brewer, from the Family Magazine
Alternative Title:
Family Magazine. Selections
Creator:
Atkyns, Arabella
Date:
1741
Description:
Selection from the eighteenth-century cookbook Family Magazine, includes the title page and pages 88-94, featuring the section The Complete Family Brewer. It discusses how to choose a good malt, hops, water, and brewing vessels. Mashing, brewing, and preserving beer is discussed in detail, followed by recipes for strong beer, China ale, “Alderberry-beer” or ebulum, and an improved, and excellently wholesome Purl, a wormwood ale.
Subject:
Brewing--England--History--18th century
Subject:
Cookbooks
Subject:
Malt liquors
Subject:
Beer
Subject:
Ale
Subject-AAT:
recipes
Time Period:
Eighteenth century
Published In:
Atkyns, Arabella. The family magazine : in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery. London: Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball in Paternoster-Row, 1741
Language:
eng
Source:
Western Michigan University Special Collections
Collection:
Beer, food, and home comfort: domestic collections at WMU
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Type:
Text
File Format:
image/jp2
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Digital Date:
2017
Digitization Specifications:
Scanned by Digitization Center, Western Michigan University Libraries using Hasselblad H4D-200 MS camera, processed in Adobe Photoshop CS6. Archival file is .tif. Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object.