[Sca-cooks] Lucayos Cook Book was Cherries, cherries and more cherries

[Huette von Ahrens]

I don't wish to be a stuffy librarian here either, but since I don't yet have
this book, is there anyway to know if this book is a true manuscript and not
some forgery meant to deceive?  The phrase "Kept for 30 year to Test-Refine
from AD 1660 to 1690" bothers me a lot.  Is there a provenance for this book?

Huette


--- Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> Sorry but I have step in and play stuffy librarian here.
> The Lucayos Cook Book was never published in the 1660's.
> It was a "family" manuscript.
> The manuscript is described on the cover of the 1959 soft cover pamphlet as
> 
> "Being an Original Manuscript, 300 years old, never published.
> Found in the Bahamas. Kept for 30 years to Test-Refine from AD
> 1660 to 1690 by a Noble Family of Elizabethan England. Long lost
> to Epicureans and the World."
> 
> The first edition was published in 1959. That's the only edition
> that I know of.  I am lucky enough
> to have one that includes all the assorted descriptive materials from 
> the original
> printing which indicate that it sold for three dollars along with an 
> appendix.
> 
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
> 
> 
> Stephanie Ross wrote:
> 
> >Here are a couple of recipes for cherries from The Lucayos Cookbook, an
> >Elizabethan cookbook published in 1660 and discovered in the 1950's in the
> >Bahamas.
> >  
> >
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