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The Good Huswyfs
Handmaid ;
A booke of Cookerie
c.1588
This is a cookbook from the Elizabethan age, meant for the Common "Huswyf."
Unlike the Books of the 1400's these recipes are not for Great feasts,
but for the table of the 'average person' ( at least one who could afford
Books. I will transcribe these as soon as I may, and post them.
Please bear with me, as the Documents are not the clearest. I would
greatly appreciate any feeback on these recipes, on the translation of
the names, and measurements.
As to the transcription herein, I have tried to be as exact as
possible. All letters in parantheses are either implied by the discritic
marks in the original or my best guesses of unclear marks. All asterisks
(*) mark letters that at present are illegible.
At present I have is the Table of Contents. If a recipe seems especially intriguing, E-mail me, and I will Fetch it as soon as I may.
The first of the transcribed recipes are here. I will place their links here to make it easier. Otherwise scrolling through the Table would take to long.
Under 'Baked Meats' we have:
To make paste, and to rayse coffins.(p.17)
To make fine paste another way.(p.18)
To make short paste in Lent.(p.18)
How to bake a Turkie.(p.20)
In service to the Dream,
The Good Huswyfs Handmaid ;The table of all principail matters contained in this booke.