SC - Re: Books on the sheilf
Lorix
lorix at trump.net.au
Thu Apr 27 23:34:35 PDT 2000
RuddR at aol.com wrote:
>
> Pelner-Cosman's sources for some of the recipes seem to have been Forme of
> Cury (Warner's edition, similar to Pegge's), and Two Fifteenth-Century
> Cookery-Books. A fun research project/game is to go through F. F. with her
> sources to hand, and try to find the source for each redaction, and determine
> how close or far off it is. I have figured out that about half the recipes
> in F. F. are completely invented by Pelner-Cosman, her students or caterers,
> the remaining half are actually from the sources named, half of those are
> altered a lot (mostly because she doen't know what almond milk is!), and the
> remaining one quarter are pretty close to the originals (a very few are right
Well, seeing as you have gone thru the above, perhaps you can tell me where she
got the fried orange recipe from?
Lorix
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