[Sca-cooks] food myths (Turkey)

Huette von Ahrens ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 18 17:42:59 PDT 2002


Marx Rumpolt not only has recipes for Turkey in
his 1581 cookbook, but also a drawing of one.

Huette

--- johnna holloway
<johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:
> Markham may be dated 1638 here not 1683. Since
> this is The English
> Housewife we are discussing, that book dates
> from its first appearance
> in 1615 as part of Countrey Contentments.
>
> William Harrison includes material on the
> turkey in his
> A Description of Elizabethan England
>             Written for
> Holinshed’s Chronicles in the 1570's.
>
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
> Daniel Myers wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that reference!  I had the turkey
> in the period foods
> > database from the "The English Housewife" [G.
> Markham, 1683] but had
> > missed this one.
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