[Sca-cooks] Re: Plat was Sausage Recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

The STC is the Short Title Catalogue number taken from
A Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad,
1475-1640] which came out in 1926 and has been revised.
It identifies a specific edition and is a searchable number on
some databases. It's one way to make sure that you are talking
about the same book. It also helps when working with reprints
and books on microfilm.

There is always a problem of time lag with culinary materials.
Alan Davidson, Karen Hess, and Elizabeth David have all addressed
the fact recipes may be in common use for a generation or more before
they appear in print. I usually cite Plat's Delightes as 1600, 1609 for
dating. I don't enter A&S contests these days so the problem of sourcing 
a recipe prior
to 1600 doesn't apply to what I do. I usually supply so much material
to accompany displays or feasts that Plat and his dating are a very small
component.

Johnnae
 


>>From: Johnnae
>>Actually there is an edition of Plat's Delightes that is dated 1600---
>>so it ought to be allowable, unless 1600 is now too late.
>>We just use the 1609 edition all the time
>>because that is the one that was reprinted in the 1940's.
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>Arwen:
>You know, since Plat was more of a recipe collector/publisher than a
>recipe author, I've always felt that the 1609 edition probably included
>recipes that were mostly written/created prior to 1600, so it would be
>acceptable for a late-period English feast.  But I'm curious as to how
>other people feel about this sort of thing...
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>>The STC for it is 19977.7
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>Ummm ... at the risk of letting my ignorance show ... what's an STC?
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>Arwen
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