[Sca-cooks] RE: Digby was flaming figs

Jones, Craig Craig.Jones at airservices.gov.au
Wed Sep 4 15:49:54 PDT 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnna holloway [mailto:johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 8:45 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: Digby was flaming figs
>
> Question-- which Digby apothecary book are we discussing?
>
> The 1668 Choice and Experimented Receipts which came out before The
> Closet Open'd

I'm pretty sure that's the one.

D.


or the edition called Two Treatises which is combined
> edition that came out in 1669 or are you discussing Hartman or
> Hartmann's various recipes that he ripped off from Digby's
> notebooks????? Those were published in 1682 as The True Preserver and
> Restorer and also in a volume entitled A Choice Collection. Or are you
> referencing something else?
>
> Part of these I have access to already, if you'll provide the title.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
>
> "Jones, Craig" wrote: snipped>
> > No, it's true but I'll have to toddle off to the Nat Lib to get it.
> > It's in Digby's apothecary manual.  It's the other twin of Digby's A
> > Closet Opened...
> > Drakey.



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