SC - manual de mujeres #62,73-76 and a question about pans

[Deacon C Swepston]

In truth, 1680 is not any further out of period than some of the late period
English sources we use, such as Digby, etc.  So it might give a number of
recipes that, though they are just being published in 1680 were being used long
before that.

Kiri

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

> --- Jenne Heise <jenne at tulgey.browser.net> wrote:
> > > And there are extant period cookbooks from Poland.
> >
> > > One has recently been translated into English.
> >
> > There _are_? What date? What's the title? Has that
> > translation been
> > published? Maria Dembinska (whose Polish thesis work
> > was recently
> > translated, edited, and published with a collection
> > of re-created recipes
> > by William Woys Weaver, as _Food and Drink in
> > Medieval Poland_) said there
> > were no extant medieval cookbooks, but I believe she
> > took as her cut-off
> > point, 1450 or 1500, so there might be cookbooks
> > from later than that.
>
> My memory is failing me.  I was thinking the Dembinska
> book and thinking it was something else than what it
> is.  Sigh.  Anyone know where I can buy a better
> memory?
>
> However, Dembinska does say that there was a cookbook
> that was printed in Polish in the mid-1500's, but
> implies that it was a translation.  But even a
> translation can give you hints as to what might have
> been made.  The earliest original cookbook she says is
> from the 1680's, and while it was published oop, also
> can give some hints as to what might have been made
> earlier.
>
> Sorry about the mix-up.
>
> Huette
>
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