SC - Gunther's Mashed Carrots and Parsnips

[DUNHAM Patricia R]

Martha Washington's Booke of cookery : and Booke of sweetmeats: being a
family manuscript,... / transcribed by Karen Hess with historical notes
and copious annotations.  New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.
ISBN:0231049307  -- still in print, I think, university press, hurrah!
(my husband got my copy only about 5 years ago)

Let me jump right onto one of my favorite bandwagons, here, 8-)!!, and
say that according to the editor, Karen Hess, in extensive notes about
dating the manuscript at the end of the book, that the main MSS appears
to be an English upper-class household document from ca. 1550-1625.  The
provenance of the manuscript and especially the style of the recipes is
how she decides this, and there are extensive notes about it all.  Read
carefully and decide for yourself, but don't let "Martha Washington" in
the title throw you off, 8-).

Ah, this is C69 -- a good sign; Hess feels that the first book, the
Cookery, up to recipe #195, is the oldest and most untouched part of the
two collections, so C69 is a real good number.  Also, in the notes for
C69 she says it looks really old, gives a reference for carrots
appearing occasionally in Elizabethan recipes, something about Gerard in
1585, I think, and notes that the language of the recipe is VERY
old-fashioned.  So I'd say this one probably is pretty safe if you're
thinking pre 1600.
(nice that there's a copy downstairs)

Chimene
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| From: mfgunter at fnc.fujitsu.com
| To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
| Subject: Re: SC - Gunther's Mashed Carrots and Parsnips
| Date: Tuesday, December 09, 1997 7:01AM
|
| > Gunther,
| >
| > Perhaps you would consider this recipe, redacted by Lord Ragnar
Keitelsson
| > (hope I didn't mangle that too badly) from Endless Hills,
Aethelmearc, and
| > prepared for Aethelmearc 1st Crown. It features carrots in place of
scyrrets
| > (a white, sweet, carrot-type vegetable) , and parsnips, mashed with
rose
| > water and some other wonderful stuff. It was simply
devoured...almost none
| > left over. Children sent parents up to get the recipe!
| >
| > Aoife
| >
| >
| > To make a Tart of Parsneps and Scyrrets, from Martha Washington
| > 1749, containing recipes from at least the previous century.
|
| (Wonderful recipe followed)
|
| It looks very interesting and probably very tasty. If I can get a
little more
| advice on its periodocity I would love to do this.
|
| Yers,
|
| Gunthar
|
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