Hannah Glasse
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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. It was reprinted within its fi
Glasse's signature at the top of the first chapter of her book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 6th Edition, 1758
St Andrews, Holborn, where Glasse was christened
The 1770 edition
The 1828 edition
Gelatine dessert
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Gelatine desserts or gelatin desserts are desserts made with a sweetened and flavoured processed collagen product, which makes the dessert "set" from a liquid to a soft elastic solid gel. This kind of
Hannah Glasse
…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…
A multi-coloured layered gelatine-based dessert.
Wood-engraving of "Orange Jellies" garnished with myrtle leaves, in Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families, 1845.
Illustrations of jelly (top row) from Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861. Top left, "jelly of two colours", top right, "raspberry cream" flavour
A gelatine dessert containing pieces of fruit