Cooks, bakers and cookery  Book III, Chapter 3, Section 3
 



Cook
 XXIX. He beareth a Cooke with a Cap, Sleeves, and Apron; Wastcoat and Breaches; Hose, [and] Shoes; holding a Dish of Meat between his Hands. A Dresser fixed to the Dexter side.
Cooks Dressers and Tables, are Emblems of Good Housekeeping and Hospitality; a thing in this age are much commended, but little practized.

Related text(s)   Menus   Cookery   Sauces   Drink   Menus for Lent   Cookery terms   Instruments belonging to a skillfull cook & scullion.
Untranscribed item(s) Feasts ancient (And seeing I am fallen upon this subject, it will not be amiss to give some little touch by the way, of the bounty of some Princes and Nobles in their Feasts and Hospitality towards Strangers in former times: )

Baker
 XXX. He beareth a Baker, with a Peel in his both hands, with a Loaf of Bread upon it, a Cap on his head, his Wastcoat stripped above his Elbows; Breeches and Hose, grey; having an Oven fixed to the dexter side.

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