[Sca-cooks] Plat's titles was roast turkey

[Johnna Holloway]

Wait a moment here--
Sir Hugh Platt or Plat wrote The Jewell House of Art and Nature
and he wrote Delightes for Ladies, to Adorne Their Persons, Tables, 
Closets, and Distillatories.

He didn't write something called  Accomplisht Ladys Delight.
Delightes for Ladies by the way is actually 1600 for the first edition, 
so it does make it into
the cut-off year of 1600. We most often use the 1609 date because that's the
edition that is more readily available. It's also the one that was 
reproduced on microfilm, it's on
EBBO and it's the edition the Fussells edited back in 1948.

The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight is a real title from the 1670's. It's 
most often accredited
to Hannah Woolley or Wooley. No author is actually credited on the title 
page,
 and there is some question about her actual authorship of it. Some 
sources list her and others don't.

Just playing librarian--

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Terry Decker wrote:

> A recipe for artichoke pie appears in
>Hugh Platts' The Accomplisht Ladys Delight, which while just out of period
>suggests that artichokes were being eaten in England at the time. 
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