Recipe and Cooking Survey.
As part of the ongoing research into the use of the Historic Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace I would like to invite you to participate in a survey that aims to find how recipes are used in modern cookery.
The answers to this survey will allow us to compare modern recipe use with what is currently known about recipe usage in Henry VIII’s reign with the statistics collected being used as part of the final documentation for this research.
The survey is completely anonymous and no personal data other than that asked for in the survey is recorded. Although all answers given by an individual are linked together, no information about that individual is recorded.
When starting the survey you will be asked a simple mathematical question, this is simply to verify that a real person is filling out the answers and not an automated system.
The survey will run from 1st October 2010 until midnight 1st December 2010 so there is plenty of time to participate.
Please feel free to distribute this information and the associated web link to anyone that you think may be interested is helping out with this research, this survey is not limited to the UK but is regrettably only available in English.
Many thanks in advance for your participation. If you have any questions or problems then please get in touch via the survey site by emailing survey@tudorcook.co.uk
The link to the survey:
http://www.tudorcook.co.uk/survey/index.php?sid=51676&lang=en
Friday, 1 October 2010
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No problems with the survey. It's just that several of us have noted that we cook differently for family than we do when we do historical cookery. A friend wrote back to me, "It was hard to answer some things because I cook so differently when I am doing research from when I am just making dinner..."
So, we're having to decide which part of our cookery we want to use for our answers.
The survey is for "in a survey that aims to find how recipes are used in modern cookery.
The answers to this survey will allow us to compare modern recipe use with what is currently known about recipe usage in Henry VIII’s reign with the statistics collected being used as part of the final documentation for this research."
I've taken the survey and I think you have missed a large part of the world of recipes. By concentrating on books, you have missed recipes gained from families and friends (Americans exchange 3 by 5 cards of recipes), recipes found in newspapers, magazines and commercial booklets. Then we get to the internet and the exchange of recipes over various lists and forums dedicated to recipes. We also have numerous APPs that download to our phones with recipes. Then there are the thousands of blogs and thousands of product recipes put up by companies. If you want to explore the larger world of recipes in 2010 you are going to have explode the topic into these other areas. As a librarian, I research recipes for people. It's a huge field.
Certainly even in the medieval and early modern period, we have those dozens of manuscripts besides the printed books. Our modern equivalent might be the home recipe collection or even that kitchen drawer where the recipe cards are stored.
Johnna
@Elise I personally don't use recipes any differently..historical or modern, but that is unimportant. The questions are about modern cookery using recipe books (or printed recipes as it also refers to) and this is what people should be considering.
@Johnna I am perfectly aware of the scope of the subject of recipes thank you. The questions have been designed to answer a specific set of research questions and criteria which do not include the less formalised recipe transfer and use that you mention.
Any recipe use that is not covered by the questions are not important for this particular survey. It may be that these topics will be covered in a future survey after the current research is completed.
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