[Sca-cooks] Re: rice pudding & marrow

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Kirrily Robert wrote:


> The English Housewife is webbed at http://infotrope.net/sca/cooking/ if
> anyone wants any more from this source.  Lots of good recipes, though
> slightly out of period (1615).  However, the just-pre-1600 cookbooks
> I've been working with lately don't read much differently, and I don't
> think an awful lot changed in those 20 years.  I'm intending to make the
> abovementioned rice pudding for an upcoming dinner party and/or potluck.


It should be noted that Markham appears as the defendant in one of England's earliest plagiarism trials, as a legal structure had not really yet been devised to prevent a publisher from buying a book in a bookstall, tacking "New" onto its title, and publishing more or less the exact same book. (Yes. Not unlike what Bill Gates does ;-) ) In Markham's case, what he was being accused of was apparently recycling his own work for republication, and being paid for it as if it were original material. My point is that I'm not exactly sure when Markham actually wrote some or all of the text that was _published_ in 1615, which might explain the fact that it doesn't read all that differently from recipes published in, say, the 1580's or '90's.



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