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Florence White makes reference to three contemporary versions: the Cornish manchet, a version from the Isle of Wight, and a recipe from Sussex for "Lady Arundel's Manchet" which is notable for the inclusion of butter, eggs, and milk. The recipe for Lady Arundel's manchet was first published in 1653
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Of bread made of wheat we have sundry sorts daily brought to the table, whereof the first and most excellent is the manchet, which we commonly call white bread, in Latin primarius panis, whereof Budeus also speaketh, in his first book De asse; and our good workmen deliver commonly such proportion
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There is also a reference to "Manchetts for the Queen's Maides", a royal ordinance originating from Eltham Palace in 1526 during Henry VIII's reign which describes a menu for medieval aristocracy. It is inserted because a correspondent had requested when manchets were to be served at court. This
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published in 1615 where White quotes an anonymous source that describes a manchet as 'Your best and principal bread'. Gervase Markham writes that the dough should be kneaded by hand and with the brake, and if no brake is available, wrapped in a cloth and trodden underfoot.
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amongst the best-known contemporary styles still made commercially. According to Elizabeth David, only the wealthy could have manchets for their breakfast or dinner, and these became the "ancestors" of eighteenth-century French rolls.
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that of the flour of one bushel with another they make forty cast of manchet, of which every loaf weigheth eight ounces into the oven, and six ounces out, as I have been informed.
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suggests that in origin it was a luxurious bread containing ingredients that were available only to the wealthy. During the reign of Elizabeth I (
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Manchets crossed the Atlantic to Virginia with the early colonists. Manchets are little made today, with the traditional
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of very good quality, or a small flat circular loaf. It was a bread that was small enough to be held in the hand.
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One of the first recipes printed in English for manchet breads comes from the 1588 recipe book
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by an unknown author. In it the author explains that the flour must be fine and have been
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America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
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back to about 1450 and equates this type of bread with
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Stavely, Keith; Fitzgerald, Kathleen (8 March 2006).
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Originally published in London by Allen Lane, 1977.
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Manchette (cuisine)

bread
Britain
France
flour
Bath bun
Sally Lunn bun
bread
Oxford English Dictionary
paindemain
boulted
Florence White
Gervase Markham
Nottinghamshire
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
Bath bun
Sally Lunn bun
series 3
The Great British Bake-off
icon
Food portal
List of British breads
List of sweet breads
America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
ISBN
978-0-8078-7672-5
"Of the Food and Diet of the English"
"manchet"
Oxford English Dictionary

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