
WOOLLEY (HANNAH) The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Richard Lowndes, 1675-1674
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WOOLLEY (HANNAH)
Footnotes
"Hannah Woolley or Woley... was a letter-writer and an industrious woman whose book of recipes, menus and directions to servants is well put together" (Simon). She was possibly the first person to earn a living from books on household management, and sought to address servants for the first time. Woolley introduced unfashionable ingredients such as anchovies, capers and wine into her simplified dishes, and helped bring in pumpkins and molasses from the New World. Included here are recipes for a trifle with cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and mince pies containing meat as well as dried fruits. The book also contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding. The first edition appeared in 1670, and this third edition, with separate title pages to Part 2 and the Supplement both dated 1674, was the first to contain the Supplement.
Provenance: Last leaf with old ink inscription "No. 1060"; Edward Winstanley, bookplate.