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Bill-in-Georgia  •  Link

The new electronic journal _Convivium Artium_ has an article of interest in its first issue:

"Samuel Pepys and His Cookbooks." Roy Schreiber

http://flan.utsa.edu/conviviumart…

vincent  •  Link

for a taste of 17C have :Huntingdon Fidget Pie

vincent  •  Link

more recipe[latin for to take back!]s of the times Jenny Doughty on Thu 29 Jan 2004,
Here is an excellent website of 17th century recipes - http://www.godecookery.com/engrec… - which seems to indicate that puddings could be either savoury or sweet.

dirk  •  Link

17th c. English recipe books in facsimile, at:
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe2…

*The Compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether italian, spanish or french, for dressing of flesh and fish, ordering of sauces or making of pastry.* 1658.

*The Accomplisht cook, or The art & mystery of cookery.* 1685.

David Ross McIrvine  •  Link

There is a long list of links to early cookery sites, and to pages of links to them, in the entry for March 26, 2005, at scribblingwoman's blog

http://www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/…

under "other tasty links." (i.e. just under the graphic of the title page from the godecookery site that we've mentioned on this page).

dirk  •  Link

Menu of the month

"A Bill of Fare of Suitable Meat for every Month in the Year"

From:
"The Gentlewoman's Companion: or, A Guide to the Female Sex", 1675
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/…

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