William Shakespeare Cookbook

[tastelessfruit]

decades ago i made a 'cottage cheese omellet' from this cookbook and i would love to have the recipe. does anyone happen to have this book? theres a chance it may have been called or had the subtitle 'the elizabethan cookbook'

[alkapal]

for future reference, a thread for "Old cookbook lovers" that has a wonderful link to very old cookbooks:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/430959

[Judymike]

Hi--I wrote the book Shakespeare Plain and Fancy--didn't know there was still interest in it. A year ago I donated remaining copies to the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. It's a self-published paperback cookbook and I have a few personal copies left.

[skidaway]

Did you ever find this cookbook? I, too, remeber it and the great egg dish. My extraordinary brother used to make thse little omellets for me and my friends whenever we visited him in SF. A nice memory!

[bbc]

Wow, funny. This post is a year old, and thanks to your success in finding your recipe, I rediscovered one of my old cookbooks, the "Cooking with Shakespeare" mentioned above (by Annette Francisc & Paula Hober). No cottage cheese pancakes, but definitely a lot of fun recipes to make!!

[Kuisine]

Might it have been this one?

Cooking with Shakespeare: A bard's eye view of goodly cookery created for contemporary epicures (Unknown Binding)

(1989 by Bravo! Books)

[tastelessfruit]

see, its just like i said...very difficult to locate it. i was in a friends private library( he's now passed) when i copied the recipe and i would have to say it was the early 80's. i'm quite sure they were called 'cottage cheese pancakes' which would be a good way to know if you had the right book. (yes i made a mistake! not omelet as i originally posted) THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR SHOWING INTEREST. i too love a good search!

[tastelessfruit]

GOOD NEWS for all who showed an interest in this topic-i have at last tracked down not only the recipe but the book itself. which i must say is an extraordinary read and infinitelty interesting. the name is: Dining With William Shakespeare by Madge Corwin, Atheneum Books 1976.

should you be unable to secure a copy here is the recipe for "Curd Fritters"
2 cups cottage cheese
8 egg yolks
1/2 cup all purpose flour
s&p to taste
lightly mix yolks/combine with cheese/lightly fold flour
and thats it! cook slowly on something heavy like cast iron and serve with sprinkled sugar.
cheers-

[Kitchen Queen]

This is great. I will have an easier road to finding my own copy. :) KQ

[Sherri]

Bonnie Slotnick used to work for Nach Waxman, owner of Kitchen Arts & Letters, heading the "Book Search" dept. and now runs her own cookbook search business in the Village. Google "Bonnie Slotnick" and her website bonnieslotnick.com comes up. You'll have better luck if you phone her rather than using the internet. She's a gem and if anyone can find what you're looking for, Bonnie can.

Good Luck!

[Non Cognomina]

Awesome tip, Sherri. Thanks!

[yayadave]

Amazon also shows "Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook" (Hardcover). But it seems to be too recent to meet the OP's info. "decades ago"

[bruce]

Well, I found a listing for "Shakespeare Plain & Fancy: A Renaissance Cookbook" by one Judith Ackley on Amazon.com. Printed in 1980 w/ unknown binding, but no copies available. My usual sources (Bookfinder.com, ABEBooks.com, and Alibris) didn't show results. :( There's a book store in Manhattan that specializes in old cookbooks -- I heard about it on NPR. Does anyone know if it? I suppose they might have a copy.... It sounds fun.

[Non Cognomina]

Kitchen Arts and Letters is a bookstore dedicated to cooking books. They have helped me find a few out of print books, but be prepared to pay for them! Don't know if this is the one bruce heard about on NPR.

Also try Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.powells.com/

Kitchen Arts and Letters
1435 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10128
Tel: [phone]

[Kitchen Queen]

WOW!! I'd love a copy too!!!

[tastelessfruit]

oddly when i search for this thread i find nothing. just reposting to see what happens............

[Kitchen Queen]

Well, was this the name of the cookbook or was it a cookbook w/Will's sonnets? Do you remember anything about it?

[tastelessfruit]

it was a cookbook of dishes eaten in elizabethan times. ive searched everywhere for it and had NO luck whatsoever.