SC - On a Tangential, OT Note - Was: Potato salad+pastasala

[Timothy a Whitcomb]

david friedman wrote:
> 
> 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/

I think I obtained it via interlibrary loan. It was published by the
Culinary Historians of Boston, I think, and is entitled, "An Early XIII
Century Northern-European Cookbook". What I have is photocopied from
some journal or other, presumably from said Culinary Historians of
Boston, since the first page is marked as page 27. Probably a search
through a Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature would be a start.

I don't have easy access to a scanner at the moment, but will see if I
can get my lady wife to fax it to me from her office, then run it
through some OCR software, and see if I can get an electronic copy that way.

FWIW, Grewe does not include any of the recipes in their original forms,
only his English translations. It's still a good resource for simply
cooking the dishes, since it is an attempt to re-create the
ur-manuscript by putting all the versions side by side to get as many
different recipes as possible (a total of 35). I think the German
version has more, but not all the recipes are from the ur-text (Grewe's
term, not mine).

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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