SC - passing along recipes

[Susan Fox-Davis]

This question comes up on every food chat board I've ever seen.  You can
copyright a book, but individual recipes are usually okay.  It's considered Nice
Form if the author is available to ask.  Our ace 1000-eggs lady is right here on
this list!  The original period author of the recipe of "hen in broth" is dead
these hundreds of years so it ought to be printable in any case.

And tell your Barony it's not nice to yell at people.

Selene

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Hi all.  I have a question here.  I just got my hand slapped for answering a
> question wrongly.  Here is the situation;  A lot of folks in my Barony asked
> for a copy of the recipe I use for Chinese Ribs (not period obviously).  I
> posted it to our list.  Our chronicler asked me if she could put it in our
> newsletter.  I said sure and offered up that if there were interest, I (and
> others) could pass along one or two 'period' recipes for the newsletter.
> Then I got "slapped".  There were folks who started yelling about copyright
> laws.  Well, I suppose there may be some validaty to that, but where is the
> line?  For instance, if I wanted to pass along say "hen in broth" from 1000
> eggs, apparently ~ I can't!  There must be a line out there or me thinks we
> would most be in jail for even publishing the feast menus with recipes.  I
> mean, it's not like the Yeoman is a national publication.  I doubt if it
> even has a subscription of 100.
>
> Well.  Any feedback would be nice.  Just please try not to yell..I'm
> sensitive, not stupid.
>
> Olwen the confused