Considered A most beautiful piece of cookery literature by Elizabeth David, The Accomplisht Cook was first published in 1660. Robert May was cook to the aristocracy of Royalist England; born in the year of the Armada; trained by his own father, then by powerful...
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Reproduction of the original: The accomplisht cook by Robert May
Encouraged by Frances Bissell's recent statement that Robert May's was her favourite cookery book, I thought of the very small number I printed of the hardback version of this facsimile in 1994. There is no more important 17th-century work: written after a lifetime's professional...
Wherein the whole ART is revealed in a more easie and perfect Method, than hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready Ways for the Dressing of all Sorts of FLESH, FOWL, and FISH, with variety of SAUCES proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of Pastes;...
Reproduction of the original: The accomplisht cook by Robert May