[Sca-cooks] payn perdu --Iasmin's list

[Gary Walker]

on 11/13/01 9:25 AM, Gaylin Walli at iasmin at home.com wrote:

> Good afternoon. I recently asked a semi-local cooking friend (hi
> Ginny!) for help finding recipes for Payn Perdu that I might have
> missed. In December I am teaching a class on basic recipe redaction
> at the MK Starleaf Gate Cook's Symposium in Windsor, ONT and I am
> using Payn Perdu as the example recipe.
>
> I'd like to include as many versions of the recipe or near-like ones
> as I can from a variety of cultures through the "ages." I was hoping
> the cooks here could help look over my current list comment on and
> point out, perhaps even supply the text and bib info for, any recipes
> I might be missing.
>
> Here is my current list:
>
> Payn Fondew (English c. 1390) from Forme of Cury
> Payn Purdyeu (English 15th Cent.) from MS Beinecke 163
> Payn Pur-Dew (English c. 1420) from Harleian MS. 279 or Two 15th
> Century Cookery Books
> Browne Fryes (English c. 1450) from Harleian MS. 4016 or Two 15th
> Century Cookery Books
> Payn Purdeuz (English c. 1450) from Harleian MS. 4016 or Two 15th
> Century Cookery Book
> Calcus (German c. 1450) Das Buch von Guter Spise, Atlas translation
> Colris (German c. 1450) Das Buch von Guter Spise, Atlas translation
> Offa Inaurata (Venetian/Italian c. 1475) from Platina, Milham and
> Mallinckrodt translations
> Sopas Daurades (Spanish c. 1529) from De Nola, Carrol-Mann and Cuenca
> translations
> Egg Pudding (German c. 1553) from The Cookbook of Welserin, Armstrong
> translation
> Filled Semmel (German c. 1553 ) from The Cookbook of Welserin,
> Armstrong translation
> Sopas Doradas (Spanish c. 1599) from Granado, Carrol-Mann translation
> Panperdy (English c. 1615) from Gervase Markham, The English Housewife
> A Made Dish (American late 16th Cent or early 17th Cent.) from Martha
> Washington
> Pain Perdu, or Cream Toasts (American c. 1747) from Glasse, The Art
> of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
> A Whitpot (American 1796) from Simmons, American Cookery
>
> I've not included the recipes from Bon Apetit and Joy of Cooking, but
> are there recipes that you can clearly see I am missing? If so, which
> ones? Are there recipes here you wouldn't include? If so, why? I'd
> very much enjoy reading your opinions.
>
> Iasmin

Hey Stefan,  see what was sitting just below Anahita's thread?  if you
haven't already gotten a copy, and if my ISP is working yet!

yeah, its early Sat am, and i'm trying to catch up filing my sca-cooks and
h-costume mail!

Chimene