SC - no Anglo-Saxon recipes?

[Laura C. Minnick]

Christina van Tets wrote:
> 
> Hello the List!
> 
> I'm puzzling over this no Anglo-Saxon recipes bit.  Alright, so I haven't
> seen any complete recipe books, but I _have_ seen recipes, in a three-volume
> work called Leechdom, Starcraft and Wortcunning.  I seem to remember a very
> tedious time in the Cape Town Univeristy library reading the whole damn
> thing from end to end in the hope of finding an _interesting_ recipe.  That
> was the chief problem...
> 
> Cairistiona
> 
> so no, I didn't write any of them down - they didn't seem worth it.  Oops.

Could your provide a citation? It doesn't _sound_ like an Anglo-Saxon
Text, but I'd have to see it first. I take it what you saw was in modern
English? Was it a facsimile? A translation?

'Lainie