Glasse's signature at the top of the first chapter of her book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 6th Edition, 1758
Born
Hannah Allgood March 1708 London, England
Died
1 September 1770(1770-09-01) (aged 62) London, England
Occupation
Cookery writer, dressmaker
Notable works
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747)
Spouse
John Glasse
(m. 1724–1747)
Children
10 or 11
Hannah Glasse (née Allgood; March 1708 – 1 September 1770) was an English cookery writer of the 18th century. Her first cookery book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747, became the best-selling recipe book that century. It was reprinted within its first year of publication, appeared in 20 editions in the 18th century, and continued to be published until well into the 19th century. She later wrote The Servants' Directory (1760) and The Compleat Confectioner, which was probably published in 1760; neither book was as commercially successful as her first.
Glasse was born in London to a Northumberland landowner and his mistress. After the relationship ended, Glasse was brought up in her father's family. When she was 16 she eloped with a 30-year-old Irish subaltern then on half-pay and lived in Essex, working on the estate of the Earls of Donegall. The couple struggled financially and, with the aim of raising money, Glasse wrote The Art of Cookery. She copied extensively from other cookery books, around a third of the recipes having been published elsewhere. Among her original recipes are the first known curry recipe written in English, as well as three recipes for pilau, an early reference to vanilla in English cuisine, the first recorded use of jelly in trifle, and an early recipe for ice cream. She was also the first to use the term "Yorkshire pudding" in print.
Glasse became a dressmaker in Covent Garden—where her clients included Princess Augusta, the Princess of Wales—but she ran up excessive debts. She was imprisoned for bankruptcy and was forced to sell the copyright of The Art of Cookery. Much of Glasse's later life is unrecorded; information about her identity was lost until uncovered in 1938 by the historian Madeleine Hope Dodds. Other authors plagiarised Glasse's writing and pirated copies became common, particularly in the United States. The Art of Cookery has been admired by English cooks in the second part of the 20th century, and influenced many of them, including Elizabeth David, Fanny Cradock and Clarissa Dickson Wright.
HannahGlasse (née Allgood; March 1708 – 1 September 1770) was an English cookery writer of the 18th century. Her first cookery book, The Art of Cookery...
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy is a cookbook by HannahGlasse (1708–1770), first published in 1747. It was a bestseller for a century after its...
like a fruit fool in the sixteenth century; by the eighteenth century, HannahGlasse records a recognisably modern trifle, with the inclusion of a gelatin...
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sweet sauce called raspberry vinegar. The 18th-century cookery writer HannahGlasse was the first to use the term "Yorkshire pudding" in print. Yorkshire...
subcontinent and adapted to English tastes from the eighteenth century with HannahGlasse's recipe for chicken "currey". French cuisine influenced English recipes...
suggested using the cheapest meats in this dish. In 1747, for example, HannahGlasse's The Art of Cookery listed a recipe for "pigeon in a hole", calling...
Kingdom. Curry recipes have been printed in Britain since 1747, when HannahGlasse gave a recipe for a chicken curry. In the 19th century, many more recipes...
described in the influential 18th-century cookbook, The Art of Cookery by HannahGlasse, with a recipe titled, "A Jugged Hare", that begins, "Cut it into little...
(without kidney) were part of British cuisine by the 18th century. HannahGlasse (1751) gives a recipe for a suet pudding with beef-steak (or mutton)...
18th century. A recipe for pound cake appears in The Art of Cookery by HannahGlasse, published in 1747. The first U.S. cookbook, American Cookery, published...
"We retire to tea or syllabub beneath the shade of some great oak." HannahGlasse, in the 18th century, published the recipe for whipt syllabubs in The...
dishes, such as dumplings and gnocchi. An early recipe is found in HannahGlasse's The Art of Cookery, published in 1747. Her recipe mashed them in a...
an influential 18th-century English cookbook, The Art of Cookery by HannahGlasse, with a recipe titled, "A Jugged Hare", that begins, "Cut it into little...
Dictionary traces the word to the middle of the 18th century when, in 1758, HannahGlasse described how "to make Paco-Lilla, or India Pickle". An apparently earlier...
seldom killed". This recipe was repeated by the English cookery writer HannahGlasse in her 1784 cookery book Art of Cookery. Linguist Paul Anthony Jones...
product (gelatin). This kind of dessert was first recorded as jelly by HannahGlasse in her 18th-century book The Art of Cookery, appearing in a layer of...
Confectioners Dictionary, 1723) Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727) HannahGlasse (The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 1747) Martha Bradley (The British...
of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by HannahGlasse includes a recipe for ice cream: "H. GLASSE Art of Cookery (ed. 4) 333 (heading) To make Ice...
Confectioners Dictionary, 1723) Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727) HannahGlasse (The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 1747) Martha Bradley (The British...
The sauce may also blend cheese and mustard into a béchamel sauce. HannahGlasse, in her 1747 cookbook The Art of Cookery, gives close variants "Scotch...
16 May 2015. Glasse, Hannah (1998) [1747]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. Applewood Books. ISBN 978-1-55709-462-9. Glasse, Hannah (1747) The Art...
sack-soaked ratafia biscuits are known from the mid-18th century. In 1747 HannahGlasse added syllabub and currant jelly over the custard. Similar recipes are...
Confectioners Dictionary, 1723) Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727) HannahGlasse (The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 1747) Martha Bradley (The British...
and the cookery writers of the Industrial Revolution era, including HannahGlasse, Elizabeth Raffald, Maria Rundell and Eliza Acton. Through her writing...
Confectioners Dictionary, 1723) Eliza Smith (The Compleat Housewife 1727) HannahGlasse (The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy 1747) Martha Bradley (The British...
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