SC - question regarding the Icelandic chicken

[Stefan li Rous]

Master Cariadoc replied to Maggie MacDonald: 
> At 6:46 AM -0800 1/31/00, Maggie MacDonald wrote:
> >I was thinking of playtesting the Icelandic chicken that was so 
> >thoroughly discussed a few months ago, and a question occured to me.
> >
> >Just WHICH sage would have been used in iceland?
> 
> I don't know, but it isn't very relevant, since the recipe isn't 
> really Icelandic. Indeed, I am not at all sure that all of the 
> ingredients would have been available in Iceland.
> 
> The recipe is called "Icelandic" because it appears in a recipe 
> collection in an Icelandic medical Miscellany. But according to 
> Rudolf Grewe, who researched the subject and published on it, that 
> collection is one of several suviving daughter manuscripts of a lost 
> origional which he believes to have been southern European.
> 
> My apologies if all of this has been gone over already; I wasn't 
> following the thread.

Not in this thread so far. We did however have a fairly long discussion
within the past year on this manuscript and it's daughter manuscripts. I
found it an interesting discussion on just what kinds of written info
got passed around Europe and how they changed in their travels. I have
captured a fair amount of the discussion in this file in the FOOD-BOOKS
section of my Florilegium:
Harpstrang-cb-msg (34K) 10/19/99    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The
oldest 
                                       cookbook in the Western world.

I believe various redactions and re-interpretations of the Icelandic
Chicken recipe can also be found in the chicken-msg file in the FOOD
section.
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