[Sca-cooks] Fwd: A Pair of Interesting Cookbooks Online

[Sue Clemenger]

Hi, gang.  I got the okay from the original poster to forward this to
the cooks' list.  I haven't actually checked out the links, but they
look interesting.
--Maire

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Subject: [SCA-Laurels] A Pair of Interesting Cookbooks Online
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:43:02 -0400
From: Jane & Mark Waks <waks at attbi.com>
Reply-To: sca-laurels at ansteorra.org
To: sca-laurels at ansteorra.org
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<3D02D89C.ABAE0676 at attbi.com>

Just a heads-up for those of the cooking persuasion:

One of my random hobbies when I have spare time is to pick up the STC
semi-randomly and look for fun period books I've never heard of before.
When they're *really* fun, I transcribe them.

Two moderately recent transcriptions might be interesting to those who
are into cooking. One (which we transcribed some time ago, but which I
don't think we ever actually announced) is A Booke of Cookrye (1591).
It's yet another basic Elizabethan cookbook. Not too much that's
terribly novel, but it does have a few recipes that I haven't noticed
elsewhere, and I've had fun playing with it. It can be found online, at:

	http://www.waks.org/Cookbook/Cookrye.html

(Note that capitalization counts on this Web server, oddly, so type
carefully if you transcribe the URL.)

The other I just finished the first draft of (like, an hour ago). It's
Chapter X of The Feminine Monarchy, or The History of Bees (1634). This
is a curious little book, essentially Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
About Bees. (180 pages of it.) The last chapter is stuff that you do
with beehives, and includes recipes for Mead, Metheglen, Marmalade,
Marchpane, Preserved Fruit and both Conserves and Syrups of Flowers, as
well as all sorts of info about Wax-making and various medicinal uses.
Kind of fun, and it's interesting to get Honey-based versions of several
recipes that are more commonly made with sugar. It can be found at:

	http://www.waks.org/Cookbook/bees.html

Have fun. (And for now, I recommend not worrying about the long
stretches of badly-transcribed Latin. Those are going to need a lot more
careful study in order to be at all useful...)

				-- Justin