Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt book

by Hilary Spurling

This book enables you to see the Elizabethans through their food in a very intriguing way. Hilary Spurling inherited from an old aunt a little leather-bound manuscript volume, which in fact contained all the recipes of someone called Elinor Fettiplace, who wrote it out in 1604. And so Spurling turned it into a book with about 200 of the recipes, with her comments and the background and history of Elinor Fettiplace and her family.