SC - Medieval Danish cooking???
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Fri Jun 30 22:34:23 PDT 2000
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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