[Sca-cooks] The Compleat Cook online

[Johnna Holloway]

Came across this online this am.
People may want to bookmark it.

The Compleat Cook
       Expertly Prescribing The Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian,
       Spanish Or French, For Dressing Of Flesh And Fish, Ordering
       Of Sauces Or Making Of Pastry

It's a Project Gutenberg EBook of The Compleat Cook, by Nath. Brook. It 
was listed as of 12/03.

The Nath. Brook being cited as the author is very misleading as this 
book is usually listed as part of The Queens Closet
Opened by W. M. [This is the volume that Prospect Books reprinted in 
facsimile some years back
in 1984.] A Queens Delight makes up the other culinary volume. Along 
with medical section that was
titled The Pearl of Practice,
the volumes came out beginning in 1655 and continued in various editions 
until the 1680's.
The Queen of the title is Henrietta Maria, widow of England's ill-fated 
Charles I.

Anyway it's up online at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/5/2/10520/10520.txt

Johnnae llyn Lewis