[Sca-cooks] Re: Beets (was Eggplant)

[Johnna Holloway]

I looked this up on EEBO in order to check the actual text
 and it is "To Make Lumdardy tartes." page 32 in
the 1594 edition STC 3298. EEBO is using the scanned Bodleian Library copy.
So Sass appears to have changed it. She also lists that she used a 1588 
edition
which no longer appears as such in the ESTC. There has been a lot of work
done on these books in the last quarter century and 
dates/titles/credited authors
have been changed. Please note that not all sources today even credit 
Partridge with
A good huswifes handmaide for the kitchin. And the bibliographic
records are very confused. Lorwin uses
the 1594 edition which is now STC 3298. UMI when they filmed it (and they
filmed it more than once )labeled
the 1594 as 3298a for the microfilm which would indicate a variant
edition. My bet is that this is the microfilm edition that Lorwin used.
Just to be even more confusing the book carries a running title of:
A new booke of cookerie which is why it turns up sometimes as that!

Hope this clears up this question.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

ekoogler1 at comcast.net wrote:

>Actually, it is spelled with the "d" in "Dining with William Shakespeare"...and Lorna Sass, in "To the Queen's Taste" uses a "b"...so, depending on which source we check, it is spelled differently.  Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the Partridge book and, while Sass does use the title with her version of the original, Lorwin does not.  I can't help but wonder, given the fact that Sass changes the spellings of several things from the earlier form of English, if she hasn't reworked the spelling here to something more familiar, a real place...Lumbardy.  Who know?
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>>It's "lumbardy," with a "b".  Someone (maybe even me) just hit the wrong 
>>key....
>>--maire
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>>ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:
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>>>Are Lumdardy Tarts and Lumbardy Tarts the same thing?  Is one spelling 
>>>more correct?
>>>Ranvaig
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