[Sca-cooks] GHHandmaide was Deer Gelding

[Sam Wallace]

Hello,

... and thanks very much for the information.

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You know of course that The GHHandmaid for the Kitchen is already out in
a transcribed edition. It was done in 1992 by Stuart Press.
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http://www.caliverbooks.com/general/stewart/tudorfood.htm  lists it as
The Good Huswifes Handmaid for the Kitchen: Edited Stuart Peachey.
A transcription of a general period cookery book with brief glossary.
ISBN.1858040035. 72p. ?7.00.
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Yes, but it seems there are some differences between what I am working with
(www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/1594-ghh.htm) and the Peachey edition.
Most are trivial, but it has made for interesting reading. I have had as
much fun researching the background information as in working on the
transcription.

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As to gelding deer, the practice is described and appears in

The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire.
The author is Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701?
Oxford : Printed for the author, , 1700.
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I thought it was interesting that he mentioned Papin's New Digester.

Johnnae
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This being a case in point. I guess I have added too many artificial
categories to my mind, but I would not have applied an animal husbandry
technique used on domesticated animals to a wild herd. It's a bit silly in
retrospect.

Thanks,

Guillaume
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