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

[Terry Decker]

Checking the source, according to Lorna Sass's bibliography in To the
Queen's Taste, the title given is the Accomplisht Ladies Delight and is
attributed to Plat.  No date given.  A small literary conundrum to unravel,
perhaps?

Bear


> 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