Housewives & Brewing

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Housewives & Brewing

Lisa Grimm

Sep 23, 2022

Did you know that brewing in the home was not just for family consumption? Did you know that passing on recipes for and using ale/beer was a practice not only documented through letters and books but also tells us a whole bunch about women’s roles in the home as well as the broader economy? Listen up as Christina, Lisa, Katie, and Thandi go through housewives and brewing through the early Modern era, and why it’s so damn fascinating.

Links:

Words about Women’s Work: The Case of Housewifery in Early Modern England - Ann C. Christensen | University of Houston - https://earlymodernstudiesjournal.org/review_articles/words-womens-work-case-housewifery-early-modern-england/
The Housewife in Early Modern Rural England: Gender, Markets and Consumption - Jane Whittle & Elizabeth Griffiths - http://www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/research/whittle.html
Women in the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: The Case of the Urban Working Poor - Diane Willen - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2540987
Beyond the Home: Space and Agency in the Experiences of Female Service in Early Modern England - Charmian Mansell - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12494
Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London - Tim Reinke-Williams - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137372109
‘Whipt with a twig rod’: Irish manuscript recipe books as sources for the study of culinary material culture, c. 1660 to 1830 MADELINE SHANAHAN* John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, p. 204. - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/priac.2015.115.04
Beer battered apple fritters - Braciatrix https://braciatrix.com/2021/11/10/historical-beer-cooking-with-braciatrix-recipe-1-apple-parsnip-and-carrot-fritters/