[Sca-cooks] Steamed Puddings...

[johnna holloway]

 The sources that I cited were the most convenient off
the shelf and the two I thought people stood the best
chance of either owning or being able to locate in a
library. It turns out that Alan Davidson cites Wilson
and gives a 1617 date also. Regarding the reference,
what you cite and what Wilson was looking at are
the same author, just another work.
Wilson wrote her book in 1973 and relied upon the
Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds for an
original copy of the 1617 edition of Murrel or
Murrell's A Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen.
None of Murrell's works are distinct in terms of
contents, so it's not surprising that the recipe
would appear in his work of two years earlier.
I suspect that it probably dates back slightly earlier
than that.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis

"Mark.S Harris" wrote:
> Johnnae llyn Lewis mentioned:
> > C. Anne Wilson spends pages 315-322 of her
> > Food and Drink in Britain discussing puddings
> > and their history in England. Boiled suet
> > puddings took off with the invention of the
> > pudding cloth which she dates to a mention in
> > 1617. Before that time they had used animal guts.
>
> Well, the following is from my puddings-msg file and I think
> it puts the pudding cloth a bit earlier to period:
>
> > I found a pudding recipe copied from A New Booke of Cookerie, by
> > J.Murrell, 1615 (a little opp, but not by much)> >
> > Cambridge Pudding snipped--->
> Stefan li Rous