Tóth Arnold (szerk.): Néprajz - muzeológia: Tanulmányok a múzeumi tudományok köréből a 60 éves Viga Gyula tiszteletére (Miskolc, 2012)

TÖRTÉNETI FORRÁSOK NÉPRAJZI ÉRTELMEZÉSÉNEK LEHETŐSÉGEI - KISBÁN ESZTER: Rácz Zsuzsanna könyvecskéje korabeli körképben

The paper recalls the periods of innovation during the introduction of the potatoes in Middle European regions; the contemporary literature on the plant and food, including examples of cookery books of the wide region. Suggesting how the new foodstuff could be used, the Hungarian author discusses a wide range of cereal and meat dishes of urban and rural ways of cooking in the country in the early 19

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h century. When she wrote, Miskolc, was an agrotown. although the administrative centre of the area. How did she menage to use German encyclopaedias directly or indirectly? The knowledge of general foreigner literature is clearly visible in her text. Some of the eye-catching recipes might come from cookery-books or oral transmission alike. [Translated by the author] Eszter Kisbán 489