[Sca-cooks] Good Housewife's Jewel WAS Bad sources for historical cooks

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Thu Mar 13 04:18:08 PDT 2008


No. It's available as part of the English Experience series.
It's also part of EEBO so it's been microfilmed and also scanned.
That makes it available online for those with access.
The Southover edition also modernized, edited and corrected parts of the 
text
and left out other recipes entirely.

Johnna

Christina Nevin wrote:
> Is this the only publication of this book?
>
> ciao
> Lucrezia 
>
>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] BAD sources for historical cooks
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> Another is Dawson, Thomas. The Good Housewife's Jewel.
> That Southover Press edition from 1996 takes the two parts of the GHJ
> and scrambles up the recipes so you can't tell where the originals came
> from.
> Is a recipe from the first part or the second part?
>
> Johnna
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