Subject: SC - Something other than Hungarian and beets.

[Jessica Tiffin]

Greetings, the list!

Gunthar said:
> Another thing. One of my students and best friend was announced to
> be knighted last weekend. So I have volunteered to cook his vigil's
> "Last Unanswered Buffet". He wants Portuguese and Danish dishes.
> Any ideas? I'm thinking the closest I can come to Portuguese would
> be Andelusian.  Maybe the cold almond gazpacho.
We've just done a feast which was supposed to be Portuguese, since 
we're sitting on the tip of Africa and were doing a Portuguese 
explorer theme...  Problem is, there's precious little available.  
The one cookbook we do have is one Cariadoc had in early versions of 
his collection, but since it's a translation into English from the 
translation into modern Portuguese of the original 
fifteenth-century document, it's madly frustrating to use: very 
modernised, and no differentiation between original text and 
translator's notes.  But there are some nice recipes in it!  We made 
a rather good beef pie, meatballs, and a sort of shortbread biscuit 
flavoured with orange flower water.  (I cheated with the last one, I 
fear, and used an Elizabethan recipe as I didn't have time to tinker 
with a proper adaptation).  It also has some interesting pasta 
recipes, several of them sweet dishes.  We bulked out the rest of the 
feast with other fifteenth-century dishes, mostly Italian and French.

Cindy sent me a copy of the cookbook (it's quite short); 
I've just sent another copy to Melissa in Australia, and she's going 
to scan it and convert to a text file, so perhaps she could let you 
have a copy of that...?  (Mel, are you listening...?)

I have _no_ recipes with me at work right now, so I fear spoon 
teasing has to be the order of the day.  If people would like 
specific recipes, please let me know.

in service,
Jehanne

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Jessica Tiffin                     jessica at beattie.uct.ac.za        xt. 2836
Dept. of English, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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