Hannah Glasse
British cookery writer (1708-1770) · Musicians · Died at 62
Hannah Glasse was an English cookery writer. Her first book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747, became the best-selling recipe book that century.
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St Andrews, Holborn, where Glasse was christened
Section of the first page of The Compleat Confectioner (1772 edition)
Glasse's recipe for curry, 1748 - the first known written English recipe for the dish
Illustrations of various cuts of pork, mutton, veal and beef; from the 1802 edition of The Art of CookeryAbout this person
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.
