[Sca-cooks] Re:Muffet was Food songs

[Christine Seelye-King]

I'm just catching up on some of this, and I found something that caught my
eye.  Do you know what the ideas about dairy were?  Either the originals or
what it was revised to?  Having been off diary for about 5 years now, I am
curious to see what this treatise says.
Christianna

> 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 His work remained unpublished until 1655 when Christopher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