SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes

Jane M Tremaine vikinglord at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jun 13 10:35:30 PDT 2000


The scribal list I mentioned earlier is at Owner-scribes at castle.org  We are
having a discussion as to weather we would rather be looked at as artist or
as in service.  What started this was a Illuminator received a Pelican for
all of the scrolls they had done.

Jana

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> Subject: SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes
>
>
> Try Lady Castlehill's Receipt Book (Moledinar Press, Glasgow)
>
> Try also Mrs. McClintock's Receipt Book, (University of Edinborough),
> previously mentioned by others.
>
> Both are from the 1700s. There are no Scottish manuscripts existing in our
> period of study with
> recipes unless they are family recipe manusipts heretofore undiscovered
> or kept private on purpose. The two above both claim
> to be the earlist Scottish recipe collections. McClintock is highly
> reccomended and fairly much like Hannah Glasse (McClintock either
> remarried
> and
> republished, or else someone else later pirated her work under another
> name).It is an exact reproduction of the original, and the editor
> has added
> a really handy table for calculation Scottish to English to Modern
> measurements.
>
> Lady Castlehill was of English descent.
> The book is a coffee table book. The punctuation was changed and someone
> re-calligraphed it. It s still a valuable resource, though, and hase some
> good brewing and cheesemaking recipes in it. It is a partial
> recount of the
> original MS (in a
> museum now).
>
> Sorry I don't have these on hand to give more particulars. I'm
> much smarter
> at home with my sources surrounding me ;).
>
> Cheers
>
> Aoife
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:04:54 EDT
> From: Korrin S DaArdain <korrin.daardain at juno.com>
> Subject: SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:02:02 EDT ChannonM at aol.com writes:
> >These are great recipes, but from my quick review they appear to be
> >English sources ie A Forme of Cury 1390 etc. Dish of Snowe, the Salad
> recipe.
> >
> >I haven't matched them up dish for dish, but that's my observation.
> These
> >manuscripts may have been brought to Scotland, but I don't believe they
> >originate there. Does the author of the compilation of these recipes
> specify
> >her sources other than commenting on the dates?
> >Hauviette
>
> Sorry, no.
>
> Korrin S. DaArdain
> Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com
>
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