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angevin2

by cock and pie

Oct 23, 2010 02:11

nineweaving linked to the National Archive's paleography tutorial a couple of days ago, and I have sort of become addicted to it, because it is fun and because I feel sort of inept for having a Ph.D. in Renaissance lit and yet being unable to read Elizabethan secretary hand (although granted it is pretty hard to read). If I could actually go to the British ( Read more... )

the elizabethans are different, early modern text is funny, i need to get out more, bük pørn, links

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sollersuk October 23 2010, 07:37:37 UTC

It definitely is hilarious!

Any chance of seeing the recipe?

angevin2 October 23 2010, 07:42:05 UTC

Yeah, it's here (click the "image" or "transcript" tabs).

sollersuk October 23 2010, 08:50:46 UTC

Many thanks! I'm staying home this Christmas and I'm sorely tempted to try it (I can often get pink veal* in the Farmer's Market)

*A very ethical meat, particularly hereabouts as there are quite a lot of dairy cattle in Cheshire

ann1962 October 23 2010, 15:50:55 UTC

"Reasons of the Sunn"

I wonder what this is. If translated in order as some other googled links have it, it looks like pepper, but the translations aren't in order further down in the translations. Curious.

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capriuni October 23 2010, 08:07:43 UTC

It is so hilarious. Maybe Edward Conway wanted to be the only one to bring his mince pies to the privy council's pot luck dinners?

Maybe it's not a recipe for pie, at all, but in code?

Maybe he was going to use the recipe to hide poison in?

But-but-but -- you have the perfect icon!

angevin2 October 23 2010, 08:16:01 UTC

Maybe they had an OFFICIAL PIE RECIPE for covert transportation of documents!

tree_and_leaf October 23 2010, 09:12:36 UTC

Maybe they confused "Mince pies" and "Min. Spies?" The secretary hand is bound to have caused them problems too...

capriuni October 23 2010, 17:15:11 UTC

You win the Lollerskate race, today.

oursin October 23 2010, 09:45:04 UTC

Government officials were doing this well into C20th - when I was at the India Office, there was a whole category of 'Private Office Papers' which was essentially govt docs that Viceroys, Governors-General etc had taken home with them.

If you want more C17th recipes, I could suggest this.

angevin2 October 23 2010, 20:07:59 UTC

Ooooh, excellent! I have a phd of Sir Kenelm Digby's on my hard drive (there is actually a v tasty grilled cheese recipe in it, although I generally omit the step which involves smushing it with a coal shovel).

ricardienne October 23 2010, 14:02:20 UTC

And here I though that Joan Aiken was being completely silly when she invented a dukedom created for the man who provided mince pies to Charles I!