SC - Noble foods, peasant foods.

[Michael F. Gunter]

Filip wrote:
> 
> I beg to differ (especiallay with Cariadoc ;) but if you go back to my
> post a few days ago:
> >berry candy (66)(bilberries, rasberries, currants, strawberries,
> >cranberries, "or any other kind of berry". 
> 
> so we have at least one recipe!  Ok, it's for "Fruit Roll-ups" but
> it's still a recipe. :)  Since Domestroi seems to have been written in
> mid 1500's, it *could* refer to new world cranberries...no way of
> knowing.

This is of course from a modern English translation of the Domestroi.
Do we have any evidence that the translator had read McGee, or knew as
much about medieval ingredients as, say, the more knowledgeable people
on this list?  It's quite possible that the Domestroi uses a 16th-century
Russian word which is NOW used for the new world cranberry, but meant
something different 450 years ago.

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                                                 Stephen Bloch
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                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University