[Sca-cooks] Re:Muffet was Food songs

[johnna holloway]

Sorry but Muffett died well before Pepys
birth in the 1640's. Perhaps Bennett was a
friend of Pepys.

As regards Muffet-- or Mouffet
Thomas Muffet or Moffet's discourse entitled
Health's Improvement, was written prior to his death
in perhaps 1594 or perhaps as late as 1597.
His work remained unpublished until 1655 when Christopher
Bennett finished, enlarged and published it. It was published
again in 1746. Both Moffet and Bennett were physicians. Perhaps
the reason why Moffet's advice does not correlate with that given
in the earlier dietaries is that Moffet evaluated what the earlier
works said and then revised the traditional advice along the lines
of his own experience and observations. There was
interesting article on Moffet and this book that was published under
the title: "How Good Were Little Miss Muffet's Curds and Whey?" by
Victor Houliston. It appears in the Oxford Symposium papers from
1986 entitled "The Cooking Medium." Houliston not only examines
how Moffet approached his work, but also delves into the background
of whether or not Moffet's daughter ate her curds and whey while
seated on the infamous "tuffet"...

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

> Also sprach Elaine Koogler:
> >And, if you want to go that route, there's also "Little Miss Muffett"
> >(eating her curds and whey).
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> Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> > Note that Little Miss Muffett was the actual daughter of Dr. Thomas
> Muffett, as I recall a friend and contemporary (obviously) of Samuel
> Pepys, and who had some controversial medical theories about dairy
> products. snipped--
> Adamantius