By Real Academia de Gastronomía
Los Recetarios
Recipe by Mari Carmen Villar Díaz (20th century) by Mari Carmen Villar DíazOriginal Source: Los Recetarios
A lack of education, and the prejudices against women participating in culture, were barriers to their personal and social development. Many housewives, servants, and cooks were self-taught, writing things down as they worked in the kitchen. These records were the only written trace of so many women throughout history.
Hake with onion. Ingredients: hake, onions, water, lemon, pepper, oil, parsley, flour.
Recipe books illustrated with drawings, photographs, cuttings, and stickers are testament to their author's tastes, and sometimes even their sense of humor.
Apple soufflé (recipe for six people). Ingredients: 8 cups of apples, 2 eggs, 16 fl. oz. milk, 6 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp corn flour, a shot of liquor to taste.
The notebook has broken through the barriers of its instructional function to become a unique, personal, and emotive book.
Discover more cookbooks in this exhibition created by Los Recetarios, a touring and collaborative digital initiative bringing together handwritten and typed recipe books.
This notebook is part of the Los Recetarios (Cookbooks) project: a digital repository giving recognition and a voice to those who—without realizing it—helped to build and impart their country's gastronomical culture from the intimacy of their kitchen table. It was started in 2019 by four gastronomes: Ana Vega, Carmen Alcaraz del Blanco, Helena Vaello, and Gabriela Lendo.
This exhibition is part of the Spanish gastronomy project, España: Cocina Abierta (Spain: Open Kitchen), coordinated by Google Arts & Culture and Spain's Royal Academy of Gastronomy (Real Academia de la Gastronomía). The section on culinary legacy was coordinated by María Llamas, director of the Alambique cookery store and school.
Acknowledgements
Lourdes Plana Bellido, president of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy; Elena Rodríguez, director of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy and Carmen Simón, academic of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy.
www.realacademiadegastronomia.com
www.alambique.com
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