[Sca-cooks] Elizabethan cookery manuscripts

[Terry Decker]

The earliest recipe in Martha Washington's cookbook is from about 1540.  The
recipes probably represent a multi-generational collection re-transcribed in
the early 18th Century.

Sabina Welser's cookbook (1553) was in manuscript form.  The earliest
printed cookbook by a woman is Weckerin, 1598.

There was a manuscript recipe book belonging to William Daile (estimated
date 1610) which may or may not be earlier in the Aresty collection.

Bear


>Do we have any examples of cookery *manuscripts* (not printed books, but
>hand-written ones) from the period between, say, 1550 and 1600?  I know
>of Elinor Fettiplace's receipt book, but I'm trying to find equivalents
>from pre-1600.
>
>Yours,
>
>Katherine