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Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #450: Something old

A cookbook from year 1862 (2nd ed.). The name of the book goes something like this:

"Advises on the most necessary homely fare and banquet dishes, as well as instructions on a wide range of baking and beverages, and information on harvesting foods and saving foodstuffs, etc."

There's no author(s) mentioned. Which probably means the recipes are collected and edited by the publisher J. C. Frenckell & Son.

I found out the first edition has been published on 1849: agricolaverkko.fi/vintti/julkaisut/julkaisusarja/kktk/kokkikirja

More over, it is supposedly translated from a book previously published in some other language. At that time it has obviously not been so important and legislated to reveal the original source.

EDIT: Thanks to Alains, I realized the website reveals this:

Imprimatur. (licence to publish) by I. U. Wallenius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprimatur

Translation into Finnish by J. F. Granlund
But no language of originals mentioned still.

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21 comments - The latest ones
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
A treasure that looks well used! My mother has a similar one but not as old. The recipes are still usable, only the amount of eggs usually has to be reduced- obviously eggs used to be smaller then;-)
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Gudrun club
"eggs used to be smaller"

I did not knew that! =O Thanks for the tip =)
3 years ago.
 raingirl
raingirl club
Old books are fascinating (nice contrast to include fresh green leaves). Old cookbooks are really fascinating. Have you tried any of the recipes yet?
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to raingirl club
Not exactly, but got inspired by one! =D

www.ipernity.com/doc/serola/49948050/in/album/1258852

I was surprised to find out the cold brew method to make coffee was mentioned on this book as well.
3 years ago.
raingirl club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Really? Cold brew from back then? There isn't anything new in the world, really, is there...
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to raingirl club
Well, maybe not. Although, number of technical innovations were done in the beginning of 20th century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped =D

And that is only one example. I recall reading an old book of innovations at my grandmother's collections. And there were somewhat all today's innovations mentioned, at least at the level of an idea.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 Xata
Xata club
Sometimes nouvelle cuisine recipes are also inspired by those ideas to assemble components we are no longer used too.... great source of inspiration, you surely can find good ideas to implement while working from home and surprise Sari !!!!
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Xata club
Especially after finding them republished online, and written in easy to read fonts! =,D
3 years ago.
 Spo
Spo
Old Finnish is funky. I once had to study the old Bible of 1642, and found this hilarious thing: once you get used to the quirks of the lettering and the language, you can easily notice that the bible is written in the dialect of Turku, "Turun murteella". But that is logical, since back then every literate guy in Finland worked in the University of Turku.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Spo
That explains a lot! =D

I thought I recognized the "turun murre" on parts that I manage the read.
3 years ago.
 Jocelyne Villoing
Jocelyne Villoing club
Il en reste quelques uns et celui là est bien conserver !*****************
3 years ago.
 Jan
Jan
Excellent. What a treasure. Maybe you could cook something from the book?
3 years ago.
 Diederik Santema
Diederik Santema club
The green leafs are a nice addition to the cookbook itself (altohugh I don't understand Finnish) and also for the yellow-green cover. If the background is a chopping board it would be a fine hint to the cookbook.
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Diederik Santema club
Excellent feedback, Diederik! Thank you very much! =)

Yes, I should have added something more there. The background actually is a chopping board. But kitchen knife and maybe some chopped basil leaves would have been nice.

So, next time maybe better ;-)
3 years ago.
 Clickity Click
Clickity Click
What lovely type style(font) they used here. Nicely presented Sami, makes one really stop and explore the image. The angling of the book adds a lot of interest as well.

Be Well Be Safe
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
No microwave instructions here.
3 years ago.
 Ruesterstaude
Ruesterstaude club
schön, Sami! Die Stockflecken und die Schrifttypen verraten, dass es alt ist, jedenfalls viel älter als die Basilikumsblätter!
3 years ago.
 Wierd Folkersma
Wierd Folkersma club
just beautiful, a bit difficult to read in the beginning....
Frenckel was a printing house in Suomenoja in Espoo. I was visiting there once.
3 years ago.
 Gillian Everett
Gillian Everett club
Lovely to have this, Sami
3 years ago.
 PhLB - Luc Boonen
PhLB - Luc Boonen club
when I see this, one thing is for sure: I couldn't prepare one thing out of this book. Not a word sounds familiar .... Thanks for showing it Sami
3 years ago.

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