SC - Question Re Platina, was Thanks re Florence
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Sun May 28 12:38:59 PDT 2000
Lorix and Bear were discussing the relations among Platina's
cookbook, Martino's cookbook and Epulario, and Bear wrote:
>There are four known existing manuscripts of Martino, so it is possible that
>one could have been found in Florence at the appropriate time. While I
can't comment on whether the recipes in the Epulario are taken from Martino...
I've seen a late period English translation of Epulario--Falconwood
Press published an edition that was being sold at Pennsic a few years
ago. There were not just recipes, but sequences of recipes that were
the same across all three cookbooks. There was even one typo/scribal
error that was the same across all three: a place where there are a
set of torta (pie) recipes with quantities given, with an ounce of
ginger in one and then a pound (!) of ginger in the next one, which
has got to be a mistake.
Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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