SC - More on Shortbread
jeffrey s heilveil
heilveil at students.uiuc.edu
Mon Dec 8 22:52:51 PST 1997
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> There is a book of recipes associated with Catherine de Medici. It was
> published in 1555 by Girolamo Rusceli, an Italian who was Catherine's
> astrologer.
> The book is The Secrets of the Reverand Master Alixis of Piedmont and it
> has been described to me as a collection of remedies with the odd
> cooking recipe thrown in.
>
> Bear
> = >>
> Oh, my...........! Any chance there's a modern English translation
>available??? Or *any* modern reprint at all?
>
> Ldy Diana, who is inconstant search of period herbals and such
I seriously doubt it. A history major named Charlie Stennis told me
about it years ago. I recently came across a reference to it in
Trager's The Food Chronology.
Bear
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