SC - > So long as we are making assumptions . . . . . . .
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Oct 31 18:00:53 PST 2000
Thank you for this information. I stand corrected.
Since all I have had access to in the German corpus is
Guter Spiese and Sabrina Welserin, I have not been
able to read Rumpolt.
Huette
- --- Martina Grasse <grasse at mscd.edu> wrote:
> Im afraid I very much have to disagree with you..
> At least in late period Germany (according to
> Rumpolt, 1581) there were
> multiple courses and the final course was almost
> always sweets, fruits,
> etc... (as could modernly be though of as dessert)
>
> I quote from the feast im currenlty researching and
> re-creating based on four
> banquets for the kings of Hungary and Bohemia:
> "The last course to the fruits/ after the
> opportunity presents itself/
> be it in winter or in summer/
> should be (prepared)
> with comfits/ with marzipan/
> with baked things/ with
> quince juice/ and of all sorts
> of preserved
> fruits/ prepared. So (like it
> ) the kings of Hungary
> and Bohemia/ etc."
> He has a more extensive and specific list in his
> banquets for Emperors,
> again the final course is full of fruits, sugars,
> marzipans, gingerbreads,
> pretzels of almonds...
>
> I'll link the splash page, feel free to jump in and
> research around.
>
> http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/Welcome.html
>
> Gwen Catrin von Berlin
> now getting off her sugar box
>
> Huette wrote:...
>
> >From what I have
> >researched, the concept of a dessert is not really
> >period. While they did have sweet dishes, they
> were
> >always part of the regular course and not
> segregated.
> >The closest to a "dessert" that I can think of is
> the
> >spectacle dish or the subletie, but these usually
> were
> >served between the courses.
>
>
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