SC - Period Recipes

[david friedman]

At 10:57 AM -0400 6/10/97, Varju at aol.com wrote:

>Bogracs gulyas is supposed to be a relative to that early Magyar staple.  It
>has potatoes, tomatoes and green peppers in it, however.  Since the Magyars
>arrived in Hungary in 895 AD, I doubt those were among the original
>ingredients.  What would be good substitues for those vegetables?

I wouldn't try to guess. The use of so many new world foods implies
considerable change in the recipe, so there may be lots of less obvious
changes as well. If you want to reconstruct it, your best guess would be to
look for period references to it.

>I would be interested in more information on how to locate copies of  the
>Domostroi and the cookbook you mention.

An English translation of _Domostroi_ was published a few years back by
Cornell University Press. The 17th c. Hungarian translation of a German
cookbook I have a photocopy of--also the German one. I do not believe that
English translations of either exist.


David/Cariadoc
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