Brilliantly compiled and presented by the celebrated biographer, Hilary Spurling, Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book has become a classic in the history of English cooking, and an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the fabric of everyday Elizabethan life. 'Hilary Spurling has done brilliantly ...

Offering an intimate glimpse into the fabric of everyday Elizabethan life, this cookery book combines scholarly and practical skills. It pinpoints the author's precise social standing and that of her intimates and acquaintances, of the kind of lives they led, consequently the kind of food they ate, and the way it was prepared, preserved.