Culinary and vintage cookbooks. Fashion continues!

Culinary and vintage cookbooks. Fashion continues!

In 2016, we wrote about the growing interest in cuisine and cooking, which translates into an increase in readership in this topic, as well as using old and pre-war traditions. The fashion for cookbooks has already prevailed some time ago and, one might say, is still going on, and even gaining momentum.

The question immediately arises: why are we returning to the topic now? Do we want to surprise you with some sophisticated, sublime and unknown dish? Maybe we want to boast about obtaining exceptionally rare copies of cookbooks?

After all, our offer already included the original Wielądko with his Perfect Chef (org .: "A Perfect Chef, useful for those who work on a farm. Showing a way of getting to know, undressing various types of meat, fish, etc., while teaching them to be cautious about the power, i.e. deliciousness, vegetables and herbs, and the choice of their use. Also making vodkas, liqueurs, syrups, cakes and sugars. Translated from French and with lots of appendages, multiplied by Woyciech Wielądek. " a Polish cookbook that has survived to our times. There were [and still are] early editions of other rare cookery or household books.

But no, this time the topic came back due to the record that was broken in Krakow a few weeks ago, when at the auction of one of the auction houses the Compendium Ferculorum from 1682 was sold for PLN 40,000 [plus hammer action, which in total amounts to PLN 44,000]. The book is small [less than 19 cm], rather "thin" [ca 100 pages], and in a later - though nice - cover. The oldest Polish cookbook! It begins with the "General Memory or General Memory of Banquet Preparation", followed by a six-page "Instrvkcya about the chef". The remaining cards contain 333 recipes grouped in three chapters devoted to meat, fish and milk dishes (here also cakes, pies, pates). Each chapter contains 100 recipes and an additional 10 in the "Additament", as well as the "chef's secret". A thing described as "very rare". We are not deliberating on the rarity of this booklet, let alone whether it is a lot or a little. We would only like to signal that the cooking fashion continues and is becoming ever wider [also in financial terms].

Another rare "Cookbook for use in town and lord's houses. A clear and accurate learning to prepare meat and fasting dishes, containing a large collection of reliable recipes for cooking, dying or stewing, baking delicate cakes, making creams, jellies, salads, compotes, frying fruit, making various hot and cold drinks, tizan, icing, ice cream, preserves, mousses, milks, roulades, liqueurs and rosettes, preserving all food by drying, seasoning, pickling, marinating and smoking; then: list of dinner dishes for farmhouses, on days weekday and festive, used for every season, and also: the way of setting up large tables, arranging shooting feasts, a la fourchette breakfasts, suppers and burettes, and finally: a glossary explaining technical cooking words, and a guideline for making various spare spices "issued in Lviv at Piller in 1835 at the same auction obtained the sum of 10,000 zlotys [plus hammer action, co zem gives PLN 11,000], which confirms the above-mentioned conclusions.

Good and rare cookbooks are included! Anyway, all rare items are well received by the market.

Our online antiquarian bookstore invites you to enrich your book collection with original cookbooks and their reprints.

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