SC - Medieval Danish cooking???

[Stefan li Rous]

Bogdan said:
> I found the following when looking under medieval cookery, but I don't do
> Danish, and so can't make sense of it...
> 
>              Author: Harpestrng, Henrik, d. 1244.
>                 Title: Gamle danske urtebger, stenbger og kogebger /
>                            Harpestrng ; udgivne for Universitets-Jubilts
>             Published: Kbenhavn : H. H. Thieles bogtrykkeri, 1908-1920.
>                Format: cii, 326 p. : facsims. ; 24 cm.
>               Subject: Herbs--Therapeutic use
>                        Cookery, Danish
>            Other Name: Macer Floridus. De viribus herbarum.
>                        Marbode, Bishop of Rennes, 1035?-1123.
> 
I suspect that is one of the Harpstrang manuscripts. You can see some
of the discussion about this cookbook that we had earlier in this file
in the FOOD-BOOKS section of my files:
Harpstrang-cb-msg (34K) 10/19/99    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The
oldest 
                                       cookbook in the Western world.

If I'm remembering correctly it is not exactly a cookbook covering Danish
cooking but rather a cookbook from southern Europe that found it's way
north. There is a series of these documents which were copied from one
original (now lost) or from each other.

This article in the FOOD section is about one of the recipes found there:
White-Mash-art     (8K) 11/20/99    A white pudding from the
Harpestraeng         
                                       manuscript by Elysant de Holtham.
 
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