The Culture of Taste and Table Delights in the Light of Cooking Recipes from the Home Archive of the Potocki and Ostrowski from Maluszyn and the Popular Guide “Practical Warsaw Cook”

Abstract

The topic of cuisine, taking into account the cultural context, is absolutely justified, taking into account the importance of meals in human life, the social and cultural conditions of feasts as meetings, numerous links with customs, processes of cultural persistence, but also changes shaped by various factors, e.g. fashion or increase in wealth and civilization progress. The research issues were narrowed down to the presentation of selected recipes from the local archives in the resources of the State Archive in Lodz, referred to as the Archives of Potocki and Ostrowski from Maluszyn, confronted with the recipes contained in the popular guidebook distributed by the Ferdynand Hösick’ publishing house. In this regard, among the aims of this publication, there is the task of commenting on the presented culinary recipes and, in a way, setting them in time in the already mentioned cultural context, i.a. by exemplary comparison with the recipes from popular publications at the time.