SC - Medieval Danish cooking???

david friedman ddfr at best.com
Fri Jun 30 08:51:39 PDT 2000


At 8:03 AM +0000 6/30/00, Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:

>The title means: Old Danish herbals, minerals and cookbooks. No, minerals is
>probably all wrong but I can´t remember the correct English term - the
>literal translation of "stenbøger" would be "stone books".

"lapidaries?"

>The cookbooks are
>the two Danish manuscripts I´ve been translating some recipes from (the
>"Harpestreng-manuscript"), but it does not include the Icelandic
>manuscript..

But are they daughters of the same original as the Icelandic? Are the 
recipes largely the same?

David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/


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