[Sca-cooks] OOP gingerbread question

[johnna holloway]

Quaker?

No doubt about it you have to find or interlibrary loan a copy of:

Penn Family Recipes. Cooking Recipes of William Penn's Wife Gulielma.
Edited by Evelyn Abraham Benson. York, PA:  George Shumway, Publisher, 1966.

Gulielma Penn died in 1694; this manuscript was transcribed in 1702 so 
that William Penn (junior) could take the recipes to America with him.

You also should get hold of a copy of the Karen Hess's edition of Martha 
Washington's Booke of Cookery and read through her notes and commentary.
As to facsimiles available, Rabisha, May, Markham, Murrell, Plat, John 
Evelyn, and Digby are all available. One of Hannah Wolley's (Woolley ) 
volumes is also available. Unfortunately they redid the Gentlewomans 
Companion and not one of the better Restoration culinary volumes.

Johnnae llyn Lewis


Daniel Myers wrote:
> Greetings, Can anyone point me to a good source for 17th century English recipes?  
> I'm especially interested in ones for gingerbread.  Was it a leavened 
> cake or a cookie sort of thing by then, or was it still the formed, 
> spiced honey-bread paste as it was in the 15th century?  The local 
> meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (a.k.a. Quakers) wants to 
> have a dinner and/or potluck with dishes from the 1600s, and I've been 
> semi-drafted as the one to find the recipes.
> 
> - Doc
> 
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