[Sca-cooks] Feast menus

[Johnna Holloway]

It's a very good edition and it fills in that hole between Robert May and
Kenelm Digbie for the cookery of the Restoration. Give it a good home.
The sections that you are finding on the earlier menus are included because
Rabisha also included that great very old by that time standby
 The Book of Carving. That dates
originally from 1508, although parts are clearly earlier.

Hope this helps,

Johnane llyn Lewis
(and yes that book was claimed)

Bill Fisher wrote:

>I just realized I have a fascimile copy of William Rabisha's
>_The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected_
>The printing is the 1682 Calvert and Simpson edition.  The original edtion
>was 1661.  Only 60 years OOP but I just stumbled on it when unpacking 
>a box of books (in preparation for their new home, a bookshelf).
>It has a fest menu listed in it supposedly dated from the 1400's - with servants
>list and seating arrangements.  It also has some course listings for
>some religious holiday feasts "Feast of St John the Baptist" etc.
>Anyone intersted?  I belive I bought it from the Poison Pen Press ;-) 
>Just found their card in it so I know I did (plug).
>(speaking of that, has anyone claimed that book that was ordered in ;-) )
>Cadoc
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