Cookery.- Plat (Sir Hugh) Delights for Ladies, to Adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories; with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes, and Waters, text within typographic border, woodcut initial and decoration, a few borders slightly trimmed, modern red morocco, gilt, g.e., [STC 19983.7; Bitting 373; Vicaire 183 (under 'Closet'; Cagle 930], 12mo, Printed by H.L[ownes] and R.Y[oung], 1628.

⁂ Rare work with STC locating only 3 copies (BL, Lincoln Cathedral and Folger). "Sir Hugh Platt wrote perhaps the most charming and well-written sweets recipe book of all, dedicated to the ladies of leisure who were his target readership. The art of preserving and candying fruit had by this time become a ladylike diversion as well as a professional business due to the high price of imported sugar, sweets were still an expensive luxury enjoyed only by a few. Among Sir Hugh's recipes is a way of candying rose petals on the bush by pouring syrup over them and letting them dry in the sun. His dedicatory poem,... is a useful inventory of sweets in favour in the 16th and early 17th century, including sucket (candied lemon and orange peel) and marchpanes: a type of hard marzipan modelled into diverse shapes for the table, and not always edible." British Library.