[Sca-cooks] Elinor Fettiplace

[johnna holloway]

Ok, The three volume set of Fettiplace is
published as Living History reference/Historical
Cookery Books Series.
Stuart Press of Bristol, England with copyright
held by Historical Management Associates.

About 90 per cent of it is household remedies which
makes it interesting to compare with the Countess of
Kent's work. The infamous chocolate cream recipe appears
in volume 3, page 38 which puts it late in the text and
indicates that it was recorded way into the production
of the actual manuscript. (Hillary Spurling managed
to place that same chocolate cream on page 232
without mentioning on that page that it was
post-restoration. The mention was made back
on page 35, but it's not indexed as such, so one
finds it only by chance. And don't think that there
weren't people using the 1604 date for the mss. and
using that chocolate cream recipe as proof that chocolate
was period....Chocolate cream 1604!!!Bring on the chocolate
cake...)

 So, anyway the work is what it is. No commentary,
but recipes, primarily medicinal, recorded as found in
the actual manuscript. It's interesting for people who
want to look at actual household books of recipes
for the 17th century. AND if you are going to do any serious
work with the Fettiplace material you do need it.
C. Anne Wilson did an article about the actual manuscript
back in PPC 25 in 1987 in case you need more information.

Johnna Holloway



"Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy" wrote:
>
> Regarding Elinor Fettiplace..


> True. On the other hand, a fair amount of the material in the complete
> volume is rather distantly post-period. Or so I've been led to believe;
> it's not unlike the situation with Martha Washington's Boke of Cookery.
> >
> Is this from the series of Stuart Press pamphlets published as
> inexpensive resources for re-enactors of various types? Those make for
> fairly good resource material, although sometimes it needs to be
> reiterated that the needs of, say, the Plantaganet Society, or one of
> the ECW groups, are sometimes slightly different from those of the SCA.
>
> Adamantius
> --
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>
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