SC - sulfa and sulfites

[Donna J. White]

At 6:04 PM -0500 7/12/97, L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt wrote:

>The recipe itself isn't period. The book (currently, to my knowledge, the
>EARLIEST KNOWN Russian cookbook) was first published 30 years before the
>fall of the Czars. It is surmised that there are no other surviving
>historical Russian cookbooks because the Communists destroyed the
>manuscripts, whose contents centered largely on cooking for religous
>observance. An alternate theory is that the Russian people were fairly
>illiterate, so didn't write down much.

It depends what counts as a cookbook. _Domostroi_ is believed to be mostly
16th century, and it has a few recipes, along with a lot of stuff about
food. Cornell University Press published a translation a few years ago.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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