[Sca-cooks] period mincemeat...

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Huzzah for Martha Washington!  She was a real Creative Anachronist, even 
if she was not a member of our particular Society.  I think she would 
have gotten along just fine with this company, a collector of cookery 
books of earlier times and redactor of same.

Selene

Johnna Holloway wrote:

> There's a good section on these in Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery.
> Hess goes into a number of the recipes and explains them.
>
> Johnnae
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> Elaine Koogler wrote:
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>> I seem to recall searching for a period mincemeat recipe some years 
>> back with a notable lack of success. snipped
>> There are three "minced pye" recipes in Kenelm Digby (1669), "My Lady 
>> of Portland's Minced Pyes", "snipped
>> Kiri
>