[Sca-cooks] medieval scandinavian sources

[Stefan li Rous]

> On 9 May 2002 at 12:49, El Hermoso Dormido
> wrote:
> > anybody
> > know a good source for medieval scandinavian cookery?  Beyond the fact
> > that there was evidently a lot of Herring in it, I don't seem to be finding
> > much about medieval food in the region so far...).
>
> I know I was playing with some Scandinavian stuff
> last year...  and I found it on-line... yes, got it.
>
> "The socalled Harpestreng cookbook (13th century)"
> http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/harp-
> kkr.htm
>
> That wonderful Gloaning page again.
>
> I was discussing it on the GodeCookery list last
> autumn, and a friendly Norwegian managed to
> translate bits of it for me. I could probably find the
> results if you  like, with a bit of hunting. Lots of
> methods of preserving things, and some chicken
> kebabs.

I'm sorry, but from discussions here, I don't think you have found
a scandinavian or even a northern cookbook. The Harpestreng manuscript,
actually a lost manuscript and several daughter manuscripts, seems to
have originated in southern Europe, not northern, and it's surviving
copies just happened to end up there.

For more details, see this file:
Harpstrang-cb-msg (34K) 10/19/99    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The oldest
                                       cookbook in the Western world.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/Harpstrang-cb-msg.html

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