Hannah Wooley - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] How Big Tarts???

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

> Also sprach johnna holloway:
> >I would argue that if we are going to use May
> and Digby (as we do for
> >very valid reasons) that we also ought to be
> making more use of Hannah
> >Woolley or Wolley. When I had my meeting with
> the people at EEBO earlier
> >this month, I pointed out that we needed to
> get all of her books in all
> >of their editions and printings filmed and
> then scanned. It seems a
> >shame that the men are well represented and
> even republished in
> >facsimiles, but the one woman author of the
> era is represented in
> >facsimile only by a book of manners that she
> didn't even author!!!

The Fons Grewe website has a facsimile of the second edition (1672) of _The
Queene-Like Closet_ by Hannah Woolley.  That has recipes in it:
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/showbook.pl?gw021

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