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Manchet, manchette or michette (French), is a wheaten yeast bread of very good quality, or a small flat circular loaf of same. It was a bread that was small enough to be held in the hand or glove (see also manchette). ==History== One of the first recipes printed in English for Manchet Breads comes from 1588 and the recipe book ''The Good Huswifes Handmaide'' by an unknown author. In it the author explains that the flour must be fine and have been boulted twice. There are several recipes for Manchets mentioned in Florence White's classic English Cuisine book ''Good Things in England'' first published in 1932. She gives five regional varieties of the bread and quotes from sources for the recipes. The first is from Gervase Markham in Nottinghamshire published in 1615 where White quotes an anonymous source that describes a Manchet as 'Your best and principal bread is a manchet'.〔Florence White: Good Things in England published by English Folk Cookery Association 1932 Jonathan Cape 1968 page 71〕 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 that includes mention of manchettes.〔Harleian manuscript No 642 British Museum〕 It is inserted because a correspondent has requested when manchets were to be served at court. This suggests that in origin it was a luxurious bread containing ingredients that were only available to the wealthy. The most superior wheat for a manchet was said to come from Heston, near Hounslow during the reign of Elizabeth I.〔Katharine E. Harbury :Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty (2004) Univ of South Carolina Press page 98 ISBN 1-57003-513-X〕 Manchets would sometimes be sweetened by the addition of scented ingredients such as rose water, nutmeg and cinnamon.〔John Timbs, W. Kent and Co, Robson: Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained (1859) Publishers Kent & Co page 42〕 Breakfast in the household of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, according to the household accounts from 1564 to 1632, for the earl and his lady on a ''flesh day'' was ''a loofe of bred in trenchors, 2 manchets, 1 quart bere, 1 quart wyne, a Chyne of Muton or Chyne of Beef Boilid; the two older sons had "'2 loaf of household Breid, a Manchet, 1 Potell (quarts ) of Bere, a Chekynge () or ells 3 mutton Bonys boyled''.〔 Barbara D Palmer,Playing In The Provinces:Front or Back Door?〕 Florence White makes reference to three contemporary versions. The Cornish Manchant which she confirms is shaped by hand,〔Florence White: Good Things in England page 72〕 a version from the Isle of Wight and a recipe from 1676 from Sussex for Lady Arundel's Manchet. The latter version she updates. Manchets are little made today with the traditional Bath bun and Sally Lunn bun amongst the best known contemporary styles still made commercially. According to Elizabeth David,〔English Bread and Yeast Cookery Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Language English ISBN 0-14-046791-2 ISBN 978-0140467918〕 only the wealthy could have manchets for their breakfast or dinner and these became the 'ancestors' of eighteenth century french rolls or french bread. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「manchet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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