[Sca-cooks] Danish Cookbook of 1616 - Question on Mead recipe

[Maggie Forest]

Drake asks:

(more mead from Drake! that's got to be good. we finished the two
bottles you sent over with us, and a good time was had by all. I must
admit though that we all preferred the Muscovite Ambassador's brew.)

>With the Danish Cookbook's mead recipe on Sat 4 Mar 2000, it mentions the
>recipe for a full Barrel of Mead.  Anyone have any idea how big a Danish Barrel
>was? I have a good idea on sizes in Tudor England, but Danish.  Bugger all
>idea, I'm afraid.  Can someone help?

>Can someone also send me the original danish text and the full citation for the
>cookbook if they can?  I would be keen to have it for my notes.

I got my copy mail order from the national museum of denmark, at
http://www.natmus.dk
IIRC (I've lost the little dust cover) it's called Danmarks forste
kogebog or something such, anyway, the shop people will know if you
ask for the facsimile of the first Danish cookbook from 1616. They're
very helpful.

you can also find it on the web, it's at
http://www.notaker.com/onlitxts/kogebog.htm
although it is of course in Danish. One of these days I'll get around
to finishing my translation project.

As for the size of the barrel, I have no idea unfortunately.

cheers
/maggie (marienna from ildhafn)
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and just as hard to sleep after - Anne Morrow Lindbergh