SC - Help for Eastern European Feast

[david friedman]

At 2:47 PM -0500 3/13/00, Lurking Girl wrote:
>david friedman wrote:
>  >
>  > There is a recent book, in English, on medieval Polish cooking; I
>  > haven't read it and don't know how reliable it is.
>
>Food and Drink in Medieval Poland?  ISTR that someone had got in touch
>with the translator or American publisher or some such, and it was
>determined that there were no actual _recipes_ found, and thus the
>recipes in the book were reconstructed best-guesses.
>
>Better than nothing, though.  Which is what I have as far as Bohemian
>cooking is concerned. :(

There is a German cookbook from the late 16th century (I think by Max 
Rumpolt, if I'm not confusing it with another one) that contains not 
only recipes (organized by animal) but menus. One group of menus 
consists of four meals for the King of Hungary and Bohemia. Does that 
count?

David/Cariadoc
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