SC - re: cheesemaking

[Cindy M. Renfrow]

There are some soft cheese recipes in Two 15th c. Cookery Books, and some
illustrations of cheese making in Tacuinam Sanitatis.

Here's a recipe in verse from Liber Cure Cocorum, 15th c. (BTW, I sent the
scanned text of this MS. to Greg Lindahl, but I don't think it's up yet at
the Med. & Ren. Food page.)

Lede lardes
Take eyren and swete mylke of a cow,
Swyng hom togedur, as I byd now;
Take larde of fresshe porke with alle,
Sethe hit and schere hit on peses smalle;
Cast [th]er in and boyle hit, [th]enne
Styr hit wele, as I [th]e kenne,
Tyl hit be gedered on crud harde;
Leche hit, and rost hit afterwarde
Apone a gredel, [th]en serve [th]ou may
Hit forthe, with spit, as I [th]e say.


HTH,


Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
cindy at thousandeggs.com
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.thousandeggs.com


>> I'm curious if anyone knows of any earlier sources? So far, I haven't
found
>> cheese recipes or instructions in Curye on Inglysch or any of the other
14th
>> or 15th Century English sources. I'm assuming that it might be in Le
>> Menagier, since that's more of a household management guide than a
straight
>> cookbook, but I haven't had the chance to look through it yet. Any ideas?
>>
>> Katja