SC - typo?

[Cindy Renfrow]

Thank you!

>Cindy Renfrow wrote:
>>
>> Hello!  In Curye on Inglische, pp.155-6, there is a recipe for "To make
>> sturgyn".   If anyone has the book handy, does the first sentence say "Take
>> [th]e houghys of vele and caluys feete and sethe hem in hony." ??
>
>Yep, thass what it says, all right.
>
>> I have several other refs for this recipe of mock sturgeon, but none call
>> for cooking the meat in honey. Have I made a typo?
>
>More likely a scribal or translator's error. Hieatt and Butler seem to
>feel that there is an error someplace, and that such recipes usually
>call for the meat to be simmered in a mixture of wine and vinegar, or
>perhaps just wine, with vinegar added to the sauce.

>I wonder if there may have been a variety of wine whose name resembles
>the French word, "miel", which might easily have been translated into
>English by a non-cooking scribe as "hony". I haven't found one, but that
>doesn't mean there isn't one.
>
>Adamantius
>______________________________________
>Phil & Susan Troy
>troy at asan.com


I have 4 refs for this recipe at hand (A Noble Boke of Cookry, & Harleian
279, Le Menagier, & this from Sloan MS. 1108) 2 cook the meat in water, 1
uses wine, & the Sloan MS. calls for honey.  As you say, this last is
probably a scribal mistake.
Thanks for looking it up for me!

Cindy


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