SC - Anglo-Saxon recipes

[Christina van Tets]

Hello!

I wrote:

> > 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.
>
And then 'Lainie wrote:

>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?
>

Unfortunately, no.  As said, I was in Cape Town then (South Africa).  I am 
now in Israel.  From memory, it was a transcription (i.e.  typed, but using 
original words and spelling) but I wouldn't bet on it.  I looked through a 
lot of books at that stage (I was too broke to buy books, and the library 
didn't have many cookery texts, so I read through all the surrounding 
literature in the hope of finding something faintly useful).  Maybe one of 
the Adamestorians would be fool enough to go and look?  It's in the English 
Lit section of the UCT library, 3 books bound in pale blue cloth...

Cairistiona
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