[Sca-cooks] Lucayos cookbook

Carole Smith renaissancespirit2 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 27 21:51:34 PDT 2006


A thought about figuring out which recipes might have been added later.  
   
  Karen Hess's remarks about Martha Custis Washington's cookbook (this is from memory, mind you) were that the recipes had been copied over by an unknown person, probably Martha's aunt, as the handwriting style was of the right time period.  Certainly some of Martha's recipes looked very familiar to me when I first looked through the book.  Some were very different, using food names ingredients that Richard II didn't, as an example.
   
  I don't know where one would go to look at handwriting styles from different periods of history, though.
   
  Cordelia Tose

  
Stephanie Ross <hlaislinn at earthlink.net> wrote:
  
Oh no, not THE LIBRARIAN! ;P You are right about it not being published in
the 1600's and I apoligize for the confusion. Wrong choice of words,
"compiled" would have been better. I have a copy of the 1959 pamphlet also.
I hope to go to the Bahamas in the next couple of years (I live in Florida)
and I intend to seek out the original manuscript. I wish the family would
print it in facsimile so that we can look at the original and not have to
rely solely upon the pamphlet for information. I think the publishers were
more interested in the witchy herbal stuff in the back of the manuscript
than the cookbook itself. We also have no way of knowing which recipes were
added by succesive generations. It would also be nice to be able to verify
the manuscript's authenticity by a means other than the little tourist-trap
pamphlet.

Aislinn

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
(snip)

Johnnae llyn Lewis



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