<P> The historian of food Peter Brears said that the book was the first to include a recipe for Yorkshire pudding . </P> <P> Ian Mayes, writing in The Guardian, quotes Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as stating "First catch your hare . This direction is generally attributed to Hannah Glasse, habit - maker to the Prince of Wales, and author of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy". Her actual directions are,' Take your Hare when it is cas'd, and make a pudding ...' To' case' means to take off the skin" (not "to catch"); Mayes notes further that both the Oxford English Dictionary and The Dictionary of National Biography discuss the attribution . </P> <P> As at 2015, Scott Herritt's "South End" restaurant in South Kensington, London serves some recipes from the book . The "Nourished Kitchen" website describes the effort required to translate Glasse's 18th - century recipes into modern cooking techniques . </P> <P> The book ran through many editions, including: </P>

The art of cookery made plain and easy by hannah glasse london 1774