Lady Arundel's Manchet

Lady Arundel's Manchet is a traditional version of a manchet, a traditional English yeast bread from Sussex.

Lady Arundel's Manchet
TypeSweet bread
Place of originEngland
Region or stateSussex

The recipe for Lady Arundel's Manchet was first published in 1653 according to Elizabeth David.[1] It was a luxurious bread eaten by the medieval aristocracy and remained popular into the Restoration period. A recipe appears in A True Gentlewoman's Delight (1653) printed for the Countess of Kent.[2]

Lady Arundel's Manchets crossed the Atlantic to Virginia with the early colonists according to Katherine E Harbury.[3]

Florence White also references Lady Arundel's Manchet's in her 1932 English Cookery book Good Things in England,[4] publishing a description of a 1676 recipe and updating it for a contemporary readership.

Manchets were often used as part of other dishes. For example, a recipe for a baked pudding that incorporates manchet is included in "Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained," citing The Queene's Royal Cookbook of 1713. This is a rich pudding that includes double cream, the addition of beef suet and added aromatics such as nutmeg, cinnamon and rose water.[5]

Lady Arundel's Manchets are rarely made today. Manchets generally ceased to appear in English cookery books after 1800. The closest similar yeast bread is probably a Bath bun or a Sally Lunn bun.

In series 3 of the television series The Great British Bake-off, Cathryn Dresser from Sussex made Lady Arundel's manchets, serving them with an inner layer of cream and jam.[6]

References
  1. English Bread and Yeast Cookery Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Language English ISBN 0-14-046791-2 ISBN 978-0140467918
  2. "SCA COOKING". midrealm.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14.
  3. Katherine E Harbury: Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty (2004) Univ of South Carolina Press p. 98 ISBN 1-57003-513-X
  4. Florence White: Good Things in England published by English Folk Cookery Association 1932 Jonathan Cape 1968
  5. John Timbs, W. Kent and Co, Robson: Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained (1859) Publishers Kent & Co page 42
  6. Kulzick, Kate (28 July 2018). ""Sweet Dough" prompts a sugar crash as The Great British Baking Show levels back out". A.V. Club. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
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