[Sca-cooks] Re: Dayboard Handouts

[Diamond Randall]

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>You need to correct your date on Lady Elinor
>Fettiplace's Receipt Book.  It is not "16th
>Century".  The compilation date is 1604 [which
>makes it 17th Century], but unfortunately, what
>we have is a family cookbook that was added to
>long after Elinor died, so it is unclear what
>recipes are within period and what were added
>long afterwards.

>Huette

In her very good introduction, Hilary Spurling makes it rather
clear that this was a working manuscript and that later additions
are "added to the back" and are in a different handwriting.  While
many recipes are "collected" from her friends much as any good
cook does today, it is implicit that these are tried and true recipes,
not experimental creations springing like Athena fron the head of Zeus
promptly on cue in 1604.