Martha Bradley
Personal Information
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Country of Birth: England
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: White
Education
Unknown
""Our cook ... will be able to show that an English girl, properly instructed at first, can equal the best French gentleman in everything but expense." (Wikipedia); "
— Martha Bradley
Professional Life
Field of Study: Food Services
Institution/Corporation: None found
Degrees & Memberships: None found
Awards & Achievements
Awards: None found
Achievements: published the cookery book The British Housewife in 1756; in addition to recipes the book included information on gardening, preserving foods, distilling spirits, making wine, beer & cider, raising animals, cures for common ailments, & household hints;
British cookery book writer
little is known about her life
worked as a cook for more than 30 years in Bath, Somerset England
The British Housewife was released as a 42-issue partwork between January and October 1756 and was published in a two-volume book form in 1758 and is more than a thousand pages long
she likely died before the partwork was published
her book follows the French style of nouvelle cuisine distinguishing her from other female cookery book writers at the time who focused on a British style of food preparation
the recipes taken from other authors are amended suggesting she was a knowledgeable and experienced cook able to improve on existing dishes
because of the length of the book it was not reprinted until 1996