Fw: SC - Ana's Blancmange

[Karen O]

At 4:52 PM +0000 8/5/99, Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
>Just wanted to tell you all - since the Harpestrengs manuscript, AKA
>Icelandic Medical Miscellany, AKA old Danish cookbook - that I now have
>obtained copies of the recipe part of the miscellany (Icelandic version),
>and of the Kristensen edition of Harpestreng (the Codex K, I believe;
>haven´t had time to find out for sure yet). The former is in 14th or 15th
>century Icelandic, the latter in 13th century Danish, and I can read them
>both fairly easily.
>
>Some recipes are almost identical in both versions, others are not. To take
>as an example something most of you are familiar with, the so-called
>Icelandic Chicken:


Grewe published (obscurely--I think via the Boston Culinary Guild) a piece
comparing all of the versions.  Someone should get PPC to reprint it.

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


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