SC - Needed--someone to replace the Known World Handbook recipe collection

Anne-Marie Rousseau acrouss at gte.net
Sun Dec 19 23:11:56 PST 1999


would my short paper on the Boon Day meal, which consists of Tartes of
Flesche, funges and frumenty, Cretonne of new Peas, and Wardyns in Syropp
serve? Its not for a sit down feast, but an outdoor feast...

it was published in Serve It Forth a while back, if that helps,
- --Anne-Marie


At 10:10 PM 12/19/99 -0600, david friedman wrote:
>I was just looking at a copy of the Known World Handbook, and noted 
>that, at least as of the 1992 (I think) edition, it still had the 
>original article on doing a medieval feast. The article asserts that 
>it is giving medieval recipes, but the assertion is false--it is 
>pretty clear, reading them, that they are a mix of ethnic recipes and 
>things based (sometimes loosely--as when allspice is used in what 
>probably started out as funges) on period originals. Sources are not 
>given.
>
>I suggest that one of the experienced people on this list, perhaps 
>Adamantius, should get in touch with whoever is currently in charge 
>of the Handbook and offer to replace that article with a more "up do 
>date" (i.e. correct) one.
>
>I should add that the Handbook also has an article on working from 
>period recipes by Melisande de Belvoir which I assume (I haven't read 
>it recently, but know her) is good.
>David Friedman
>Professor of Law
>Santa Clara University
>ddfr at best.com
>http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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