SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 31 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The research group of the University of La Laguna ‘Palingestos. Party and show in popular culture in its Atlantic context ‘, the Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural-Gonierno de Canarias, The Foodie Studies and C23 Culture have launched the collaborative project’ Historical domestic recipes of the Canary Islands: identity and intercultural dialogue with a woman’s name ‘whose objective is the recovery, mapping, study, digitization and transcription of ancient recipes from the islands.
The research consisted of tracking the old recipe books in public and private funds for their cataloging and description in this open and collaborative on-line repository that is now shared as an open resource on the web recipescanarias.org.
Among the recipes are those found in the collections of Lorenzo Cáceres in the Municipal Archive of Garachico, Miguel Alzola in the Canarian Museum, Nepomuceno Fund of the Municipal Archive of La Orotava, Anselmo J. Benítez and Ignacio Vergara of the Old Collection of the Library of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Álvarez Rixo from the Guajara University Library of La Laguna and Alicia Ramos Wangüemert’s recipe book from María Victoria Hernández’s personal archive on the island of La Palma.
To these sources are added the cookbooks of Carrillo Kábana, Blanca Zamorano, Rodríguez Peña and Martín de Rolo recovered from their family archives.
Among these recipes, which date back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, are the instructions for sweet dishes so considered in the islands such as mole eggs, prickly pear eggs or bienmesabe.
Among the salty dishes, the elaboration of sausages or the preparation of meat and fish are common.
These valuable documents, signed mostly by women, not only include recipes but also other instructions such as how to organize an ambigu, a festive table full of seductive dishes, or how to make orange wine, little known among the islanders according to the writing, or even how to fill sausages, an art that is “within the reach of all intelligences”, the promoters highlight in a note.
RECIPES PRIOR TO 1950
This project reveals the large amount of heritage information that remains to be studied and compiled written by women and that is why a call is made for those who have handwritten recipe books prior to 1950 to make them known, to give them the importance they deserve and enter into be part of this repository that is conceived as a meeting place.
For this, the people in charge of the project, Alejandro Martín (collaborator of the ULL research team and CEO of C23 Culture) and Yanet Acosta (professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid and director of the Master of Communication and Gastronomic Journalism of The Foodie Studies ), they encourage all those who have a handwritten domestic cookbook related to the Canary Islands to contact the project through the web mail info@recetascanarias.org or through the social networks enabled on twitter, facebook and linkedin.
In this repository, which will continue to be fed during 2022, those cookbooks from which permission has been obtained for their full or partial dissemination through recipes and other images of the files that have been obtained are offered in a complete and open way. requested.
This repository represents a highly relevant resource for researchers in the university world who are beginning to be interested in an incipient line of research in Spain but with great development in other countries such as the United States and also a source of inspiration for chefs, disseminators and people fans of the world of Canarian gastronomy.
