[Sca-cooks] Irish Housewives

[Terry Decker]

I believe you are correct in this statement.  However, there is some work
being done combining archeology and examination of historic literature.
I'll provide you a citation for one of the papers when I locate the
collection it's in.  I'm planning to use it as the basis for a speculative
experiment in period Irish baking.

Bear


>I'm puzzled--are you talking about Ireland? I didn't think any
>recipes were recovered from period, monkish or otherwise. If you are
>talking about the areas we do have cookbooks from--say French/English
>13th-15th century--then the statement is clearly false. Off hand I
>cannot think of any recipes we have that come from monasteries, and
>certainly most of them don't. What we have are recipes written by or
>for middle and upper class people--which may be the chief limitation.
>--
>David Friedman