SC - Query to the list - "Good Huswifes' Handmaide for the kitchen"

Susan Laing gleep001 at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 9 16:28:30 PST 2001


<< ... isn't "The Good Huswifes' Handmaide for the Kitchin" the source
we discussed that may or may not have lifted passages from the Neue
Proper Boke of Cokerie? >>

My notes say, that the passage "Brawne is beste from a fortenyghte
before Mychalmas tyll lente ..." from 'A proper Newe Booke of Cokerye
resembles closely to a passage in the 'Good Huswifes Handmaide'.

Here is what the Copac catalogue (http://copac.ac.uk) says about the
original:

Title Details: 
A good huswifes handmaide for the kitchin : Containing manie principall
pointes of cookerie, aswell how to dresse meates, after sundrie the best
fashions vsed in England and other countries, with their apt and proper
sawces, both for flesh and fish, as also the orderly seruing of the same
to
the table. Hereunto are annexed, sundrie necessarie conceits for the
preseruation of health. Verie meete to be adioned to the good huswifes
closet of prouision for her houshold

Series:
Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 176:8
Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 875:8

Publisher: 
Imprinted at London : By Richard Iones, 1594

Physical Desc.: 
57 [i.e. 56], [3] leaves
         
Notes: 
Appears at reel 176 and at reel 875 (same Bodleian Library copy filmed
twice)
Errors in foliation. Actual foliation derived from signature collation 
Identified as STC 3298a on UMI microfilm reel 176 
Imperfect; lacks leaves 7-14, 24-29 and is stained throughout 
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library (same copy filmed
twice) 
Running title reads: A new booke of cookerie 
Signatures: A-G H23 
"The good huswifes closet of provision for her houshold" = STC
19429--Cf. STC
Subject(s): 
Cookery - Early works to 1800
Language: 
English

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