SC - Fetal Rabbbit Experiment

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Beatrix quoted the kvass recipe from Domestroi as 16th century, and
Adamantius asked:
>>Do we have a more specific date for the Domestroi? I was under the
>>impression it was early 17th century...

and Beatrix replied:
>According to the Pouncy in the Introduction:
>	The colloquial Russian in which most of the text was written
>	 dates no earlier than the accession to the throne of Ivan III
>	 in 1462 and probably not much later than the death of his
>	 grandson Ivan IV in 1584. ... it most likely appeared sometime
>	in the 1550's.
>
It is actually more complicated than that.  Domestroi was a very popular
book in an era of hand-copying, so there was no definitive text; it got
revised and added to over time.  Pouncy discusses the different versions
that have survived and what she believes is the sequence of additions over
time, and concludes that while the earliest version (her Short Version) is
from the 16th c.,  "between 1600 and 1625, three unrelated chapters with
menus and recipes...became associated with the Long Version; shortly
thereafter they received numbers and became Chapters 64-66."  The kvass
recipe, together with various mead recipes, is out of Chapter 65.  So yes,
the main part of the text is 16th c., but the kvass recipe is early 17th c.

Yours in the service of nitpicking,
Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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