[Sca-cooks] 12/13th Century feast

[johnna holloway]

Early 13th is covered by:
 the LIBELLUS DE ARTE COQUINARIA
 An Early Northern Cookery Book.

I reviewed it for the list in July. Here are
excerpts from my review.

The LIBELLUS is among the oldest  of culinary recipe
Collections & dates from the early thirteenth century.
It survives in 4 versions
Danish, Icelandic, & Low German.
It is thought to date back to the 12th century.
It’s a small collection of only 35 recipes.

Society members have known it for many years as the
Collection published AN OLD ICELANDIC MEDICAL
 MISCELLANY [Ms. Royal Irish Academy 23D 43.]in
1931 by Henning Larsen.

What this 158 page book does is to bring together the four
Versions, translate them, add textual notes, commentary
Indices, etc.  Did I mention that it’s the work of the late
Rudolf Grewe (who provided us with the LIBRE DE SENT
SOVI in 1979) and Constance B. Hieatt who is of course
The scholar behind PLEYN DELIT, CURYE ON INGLYSCH:
& AN ORDINANCE OF POTTAGE?
Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Johnna Holloway




>         Mari wrote
>         BTW - I've been approached to Kitchen Steward a feast & provide the
> menu for
>         [sic] "12/13th Century feast" - haven't yet checked with organiser
> for
>         country of origin (I suspect it hasn't been considered just the time
> period)
>         - anyone able to suggest a good country somewhere within that time
> period
>         and point me towards a source or two??  (I've been mostly
> concentrating on
>         Italian 15thC+ & Middle Eastern recipes till now)