SC - Dating Eleanor Fettiplace

[david friedman]

At 12:09 AM -0500 7/2/98, LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
>The book was begun in 1604, but contains recipes from others that were
>given to her. ...

>It is not at
>all likely that Elinor began to cook for the first time at age 34, with
>no prior knowledge of recipes, cooking, or general food ways.  I know, we
>can't prove anything earlier than '1604' in her handwriting, but we need
>a little common sense, sometimes.

Nobody is arguing that she began to cook at age 34. The question is whether
some of the recipes that she wrote down originated after 1600. When I
learned to cook, neither tofu nor sun dried tomatoes were ingredients used
in (non-ethnic) American cooking. Now they are--and if I was keeping a
recipe book I might include them.


David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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