The Everlasting Syllabub activates domestic tools in a way that facilitates animation and personification, separated from any usual stereotypes. In an environment that relies on instruction through the use of recipes, and repetition through action, do domestic tools dictate the way that they are used? What kind of relationship do users have with their tools?

 

“Take great care, so you may do as you please, you must whip, let it lie, a little mouth, keep in. lay it in to the fat, press it, turning of with it, an hour break a little, it must be half a year old” - an extract from Everlasting Syllabub and The Art of Carving

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First Published in 1747, Everlasting Syllabub and The Art of Carving written by Hannah Glasse is a collection of 18th century recipes and remedies. The linguistic qualities are poetic and fluent, descriptive and sensual, recognised in comparison to modern recipe writing.

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Paired with a sound piece, The Everlasting Syllabub attempts to recreate the intimacy and unsettled nature felt when reading recipes written by Glasse. The sound piece was made with a combination of sounds created by the objects and extracts of recipes read aloud, which was played for the duration of the exhibition.