[Sca-cooks] Johannesburg Torte was researching recipes

[Terry Decker]

I recently ran across a web site which appears to have an English
translation of at least part of The French Pastry Chef.  I think I
bookmarked it at the office.  If I have, I'll post the URL next week.

You're right, I transposed part of the date.  Let's blame it on the sinus
infection which has knocked me into bed for a few days.

Bear


>The date is mid 1650's. It's out in a French reprint from the 1980's,
>which I can highly recommend.
>
>The English translation was released in England as by Marnette. Titled
>The Perfect Cook with a first edition in 1656 and the second in 1686
>which (and this is where your good luck stops)
>HAVE NEVER been filmed by UMI, so they are not on microfilm NOR are they
>on EEBO.
>
>They are part of this Thomason Tract literature that has never
>been added to EEBO. Sometime in the next 2 years or so, maybe
>they will be added. This is another of those titles that I pointed
>out to EEBO that need to be added when I met with them last month.
>
>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
>Generys ferch Ednuyed wrote:
>> La Varenne's The
>> French
>> > Pastry Chef (La Pastissier Francois) first published in 1563.
>> >> > Bear