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

[Sue Clemenger]

Late 17th century England is Stuart, if anything.  Certainly isn't
Elizabethan....
--Maire's two pence worth....
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From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Lucayos Cook Book was Cherries, cherries and more
cherries


> There's really no provenance to speak of and the information
> given by the text is quite limited. Without seeing the original,
> I have no trouble believing that it is a family manuscript.
> It may have been begun in the 17th century. (Is the late 17th century
> 1660-1690 really Elizabethan?) Certain recipes read like late 17th
> century recipes.