SC - snake

[tgl at mailer.uni-marburg.de]

<< Do we actually have extant period recipes for snake? >> 

Wiswe (Kulturgeschichte der Kochkunst, p. 72) quotes what seems to be a
recipe for a sick dish for lepers from Taddeo Alderotti: a certain
mountain snake cooked with leek, dill and salt, cut to pieces, then
prepared as "pastillus vel zaldellum" or as small tarts ("tortelli")
with parsley and dill.

The reference according to Wiswe: page 191 @ Taddeo Alderotti: I.
Consilia. Ed. Giuseppe Michele Nardi. Torino 1937.

Th.