Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

eminent persons, 85, --Early, 98-153 Religious scruples against certain food, 9 Rents, excessive, 189-90 Roasting-spit or iron, 217 Robert, Master, and his wife Helena, 208, 234-5 Romans, culinary economy of, 7 --obligation to Greece, 7 Roses, conserve of, 65 Rundell, Mrs., 161 Rush, Friar, 237 Russell's Book of Nurture, 258 Salt, 214 --, fine, 228 --cellar, 218 Sandwich, Kent, 236 Saracen sauce, 58 Saucepan, 216 Sauces, 29-31, 214-15 Sausage, 23 Saxon influence on diet, 9 Scotland, want of Inns in, 32-3 Scots, the, 11, 33, 168 --their early food, 11 --their poverty, 33 Scott, Sir Walter, 167-8 Scottish cookery, early, 30-2 Secret house, keeping, 26, 49,190 Shakespeare, W., 242 Shrewsbury cakes, 85 "Sing a song of sixpence," 66 Smith and his Dame, a tale, 215 Smith, E., Preface to her Cookery Book, 1736, 89-97 --select extracts from the work, 98-153 Soap, 226 Song of the Boar's Head, 241 Soups, 23 Soyer, Alexis, 169-72 Spanish influence on cookery, 66 --Armada, 190 Spice with wine, 204 Spinach, 84 Spit-turner, 236 Spit, turning the, a tenure, 217 Spoons, 218, 222-4 Spread-eagle pudding, 114 Spruce-beer, 203 Squire, functions of the, at table 259 "Squire of Low Degree," 259 St. Albans Abbey, 208 St. John's College, Cambridge, 202 Stanton-Harcourt, 210 "Store of house," 187 Subtleties, 47-8 Sugar, 193-5 Swan, 106 Swinfield, Bishop, 4 Sykes, Colonel, 220 Syrups from flowers, 112 Table-cloth, 218 Table-furniture, 231 Tansies, 122 Tart, fruit, 186 Tea caudle, 134 Temse, 35 Tiffany cakes, 35 Tillinghast, Mary, 77 Tinder-box, 216 Tom Thumb, 54, 182, 186 Touchwood, Peregrine, Esquire 168 Towel, 218 Trencher, 197, 218, 219-21 --Posies on the, 220 Tripe, double, 106 Tripod, 181, 211-13 Trivet, 225 Trumpet, dishes brought into the hall to the sound of, 262 Tureiner, 103 Tusser, Thomas, 62-3 Ude, Louis Eustache, 167 Utensils, 12, 17, 206, 208 _et seq._, 225-8 --treatise on, by Alex. Neckam, 17, 51 Vegetable diet, 183 Venison, 43-4, 198 Venner, Tobias, 63-6 Viard et Fouret, MM., 14-15 Village life, early, 36 Vocabularies, primary object of, 51-2 Wafery, 244 Wandsworth, 211 Warham, Archbishop, 48 Westminister, 249-50 Westphalia hams, 104 Whale, 20 Whetstone cakes, 127 Whey,