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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 640.5942
EAN: 9780907325765
ISBN: 0907325769
Label: Prospect Books (UK)
Manufacturer: Prospect Books (UK)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 294
Publication Date: 1997-01
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
Studio: Prospect Books (UK)

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Editorial Review:

Book Description:
This book was last printed in 1910, in a sound edition that is no longer easily available. This new version has several improvements. The editors discuss the role of George Hartman, Digby's assistant, in the compilation of the book, and relate its contents to the work that went out in 1682 over Hartman's own name, The True Preserver and Restorer of Health. There is a full glossary and the reader will be helped by the extensive biographical notes about people named in the text as the source of recipes.

Digby's work is perhaps the most literate of seventeenth-century cookery books. He was a natural writer, as entertaining as instructive. Many of the recipes are for drinks, particularly of meads or metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby's European travels. The editors also include the inventory of Digby's own kitchen in his London house, discovered amongst papers now deposited in the British Library; and they have provided a few modern interpretations of Digby's recipes.




Rating: - The ultimate resource for Brewing and cookery in the 17th C
This is a book first published in 1669 and as such is the most comprehensive resource of its type in its day. There is no more complete recipe resource for meads, metheglyns and fruit wines, preserves, desserts and other recipes earlier than this date. It is the virtual bible of re-enactor brewing resources.

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