[Sca-cooks] Stuart Peachey

[Mary Denise Smith]

Greetings List,

This book list is from a vendor at the Re-enactor's Fair, held last
weekend in Oxford, England.

Anyone care to comment on them?

MD/Marged


Early 17th Century Food Series

General

Festivals and Feasts of the Common Man 1550-1660: Stuart Peachey. A
study of the nature of the festivities and the foods prepared. May day,
the 12 days of Christmas, Harvest
Home, Wakes and many more. ISBN1858040949. 28p £3.00

The Gourmet's Guide 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey. The very best of period
cookery. The original recipes with modern interpretation.
ISBN1858040531. 60p £5

The Tipplers Guide to the Mid 17th Century: Stuart Peachey. A
comprehensive guide as to the drink consumed and made, the law on
drinking and a brief guide to drinking vessels.
Includes many recipes. Identifies many of the wines used as ingredients
in cookery. ISBN.1858040078. 84p £5.00

Farmhouse Christmas Fare 1580-1640: Stuart Peachey, Robert Morris and
Turloch Mc Sween. Based on the Radio Wales Christmas Day broadcast, this
work gives original recipes with
modern instructions for the food and drink that might have been consumed
at Christmas by a modest farming family at that date. ISBN.1858040280.
16p £2.00

Cookery Techniques and Equipment 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey. £5 each

Volume 1: Fuel and cooking methods and equipment including ovens,
roasting, boiling, grilling etc. ISBN.1858040515

Volume 2: Food preparation methods and equipment including grinding,
sorting, drying, cutting, colouring etc. ISBN.1858040523

Feast and Banquet Menus: Stuart Peachey. A collection of sample feast
and banquet menus from period cookbooks. ISBN.1858040051. 24p. £2.50.

17th Century Vegetable Uses: T. Mc Sween. A brief guide to the
vegetables and their uses. ISBN.1858040098. 12p £1.50

The Armada Cookbook: Stuart Peachey. An introduction to late 16th and
early 17th century cookery with recipes. Considerable duplication with
Farmhouse Christmas Fare £3.00
Partizan Press

Civil War and Salt Fish: Stuart Peachey. An analysis of the food and
diet of the common man in the mid 17th century. £5.00 Partizan Press

Ingredients

These books contain an analysis of the various ingredients used in the
cookery of the period:

Early 17th Century Imported Foods: Stuart Peachey. The origins and
nature of imported foods in England. ISBN.1858040175. 32p £3.

The Book of Cheese 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey. This work is designed to
help identify the types of cheese being produced and consumed in England
and Wales. ISBN.1858040272. 16p
£2.00

See also: The Tipplers Guide to the Mid 17th Century

Specific types of dish:

These books generally provide a comprehensive list of recipes on a
particular type of dish such as Salads or Pies. They contain the
majority if not all surviving printed recipes with lists of
ingredients and modern interpretations:

The Book of Salads. 1580-1660: ISBN.1858040264. Stuart Peachey. 28p £3.00

The Book of Pies 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey. A guide to period pies and
tarts including pastry making. Includes modern interpretations for the
major variants. 2 Volumes each 64p each
£5

Volume 1: Meat Pies and Pastry. ISBN1858040582.

Volume 2: Fish, Dairy, Egg, Fruit and Vegetable Pies, Tarts and Florentines.

ISBN1858040590.

The Book of Roasts 1580-1660. Stuart Peachey. A comprehensive guide to
period roasts. Includes sauces and stuffings. ISBN.1858040701. 64p £5

The Book of Frying and Grilling 1580-1660. Stuart Peachey. ISBN1 85804
124 4. 52p. £5.00.

The Book of Biscuits and Cakes 1580-1660. Stuart Peachey.
ISBN.1858040833. 36p £4

The Book of Breads 1580-1660. Stuart Peachey. ISBN.1858040825. 24p £2.50

The Book of Preserving Fruit 1580-1660. Stuart Peachey. Preserves,
conserves, marmalades, candies, dry fruit etc.

Volume 1: Apples -Oranges 76p £6.00

Volume 2 Peaches - Strawberries. 64p £6.00

The Book of Comfit Making 1580-1660: Sugared pills the predecessor of
aniseed balls. Stuart Peachey 20p £2.50

New: The Book of Sausages 1580-1660: ISBN. 185804117 1. Stuart Peachey.
12p £1.50.

New: The Book of "Puddings" 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey. Puddings as the
term was known to the 17th century cook. These were not deserts but
puddings in the sense of black
puddings, hogs liver and rice puddings plus bag puddings and many more.
40p £4.00

New: The Book of Boiled Meats 1580-1660: Stuart Peachey.

Volume 1 Fish 29p £3

Volume 2 Mutton and Lamb 28p £3

Volume 3 Beef, Pork and Game 32p £3

Volume 4 Poultry and Wildfowl [out March 2000]

Transcribed Cook Books

These books generally contain the text and a glossary but no modern
interpretation of the recipes.

The Good Huswifes Handmaid for the Kitchen: Edited Stuart Peachey. A
transcription of a general period cookery book with brief glossary.
ISBN.1858040035. 72p. £5.00.

John Murrell's Two books of Cookerie and Carving 1638: Edited Stuart
Peachey. Book 1 contains recipes and menus, book 2 comprises a book of
recipes and a second book of
carving and serving which also includes fascinating sections on the
roles of the main household officials and rules of precedence. Much of
the latter section appears based on an early 16th century
work.

Book 1 [Recipes and Menus]: ISBN.1858040248. 44p £4.00

Book 2 [Recipes and Etiquette]: ISBN.1858040256. 56p £5.00

Delightfull Daily Exercises for Ladies and Gentlewomen: John Murrell.
Edited by Stuart Peachey. This work contains mainly banqueting rather
than feast recipes, banquet layouts
and interesting clues to cooking techniques. 1621. ISBN.1858040329 48p £4.00.

Miscellaneous Recipes Volume 1: Stuart Peachey. A collection of
scattered recipes in period works other than cookery books [The Treasury
of Hiden Secrets, Richard Symond's Diaries
and Izac Waltons Complete Angler]. ISBN.1858040043. 16p £2.

The Ladies Closet Opened: Edited by Stuart Peachey. The cookery recipes
only from the original work dealing with a mixture of dairy, conserving
and banqueting dishes.
ISBN.1858040442. 32p £3.

A proper New Book of Cookerye 1545? Ed Jane Huggett 20p £2.50

A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen. 1636. Bootleg Press Facsimile.
Banqueting preserves, waters, some medicinal etc 72p £5