[Sca-cooks] Mrs Cromwell was Protestants prohibited spices in England?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> I actually have owned a copy of Mrs. Cromwell's Cookery Book since  
> 1984
> when the Cambridgeshire Libraries published it in a paperback. There's
> really
> no evidence that she wrote it and it's thought to be a Royalist book
> written to show
> what a poor housekeeper she was. The recipes are not bad.
>
> Johnnae


Thass okay, the book I have which I thought contained some her  
receipts did, in fact, actually contain recipes alleged to be from  
Queen Henrietta Maria... I'm sure I have something alleged to be from  
Joan Cromwell, just not sure what or where. And if it's not actually  
from her, but mere scurrilous spoofery and a political smear  
campaign, it almost doesn't matter unless the recipes are so  
atrocious as to be obvious to anyone, in which case it would stick  
out like a sore thumb.

I sincerely doubt that the cookery of the Puritans or any other  
Protestant sect would differ markedly from that of the rest of a  
mostly Protestant England as of the mid-16th century or so.

Adamantius




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