Food and Cookery

By Bethany Trohear

This first text is a recipe for a curry in 1747

The audience would be someone in the upper class for they would be the only ones with a

cookery book and all the ingredients and utensils to make this cuisine

The purpose of the text is to instruct on how to make an Indian curry

To Make a Curry the India Way

Lexis

“fend” we are unlikely to use this in the context it was used to “fend it to the table” it seems very old fashioned and now has had a

semantic change

Orthography

Using the ‘f’ instead of an ‘s’ for example: thicknefs, ftew, fmall, obferve and foftly

Using the ‘∫’ long S symbol for the “sh” sound e.g. Fre∫h – Fresh

“Fowls” which we now spell with an A instead of a W – Foals

In the piece they use the word “shovel” for a

cooking utensil the meaning of that now has narrowed and we now use it for a spade like

garden utensil We could say the word “fend” has had a sematic change as they have used it in the context “fend it to the table” now we would

only use the word fend in the context of defence or to push something unwanted away

or “fend for ourselves”

Semantics

The recipe has been wrote in paragraphs like

the structure of a story not how our recipes our wrote these days they are structured in bullet points or numbered like instructions

Also the ingredients are added in to the paragraph and we have to wait until we get to

them where as now we have all the ingredients and measurements at the start

Graphology

Grammar

In the whole of the paragraph of the recipe it uses two full stops and they are both at the end – one sentence contains 141 words and

the second sentence contains 10 words The usual length of a sentence these days is

around 15-20 words unless it’s a short sentence

First British Advert for Curry Powder

It is a advert for curry powder in 1747 from England's most powerful trading company of

Asian goods The purpose it persuade people to buy this

new amazing curry powder from East India The audience would be the upper class for

they would be the only people able to afford the powder or the ingredients and utensils to

cook it with