[Sca-cooks] Dutch Cookbooks was Dutch Food

Wed Nov 13 07:56:05 PST 2002

Here are some more places to look--

PPC 11 carries an article on early Dutch cookbooks of the 16th and 17th
centuries. See it for additional comments.
Also see:
Oud-Hollands Kookboek / Annie van't Veer
1966 Utrecht [Holland] : Prisma-Boeken
 189 p. : illus.  which is a history of Dutch Cookbooks and cookery. My
copy is a paperback from 1981.
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Een nieuw Zuidnederlands kookboek uit de vijftiende eeuw /
Willy Louis Braekman. 1986 Brussel : Omirel UFSAL.
147 p. : ill. no other information given.

De Keuken van de late middeleeuwen : een kookboek uit de Lage Landen /
Ria Jansen-Sieben;  J M van Winter
1989 Amsterdam : B. Bakker, ISBN: 9035107985
 219 p.

Van soeter cokene : recepten uit de oudheid en middeleeuwen /
J M van Winter
1976 Haarlem : Fibula-Van Dishoeck, ISBN: 9022842916
 167 p. : ill. Recipes originally published in Spiegel Historiael,
maanblad voor geschiedenis en archeologie./ Includes index.

"Johanna Maria van Winter" is a professor emerita from Utrecht
and written extensively on medieval foods. Her essay entitled "The Low
Countries in the 15th and 16th Centuries" appears in Regional Cuisines
of Medieval Europe. A Book of Essays, edited by Adamson. Routledge,
2002. Google turns up a number of her appearances and papers.

Het "Keuckenboeck" van de tollenaar van Lobith 1428-29 /
G R Bosscha Erdbrink. 1979 Groningen : Wolters-Noordhoff, ISBN:
9001318509  xiii, 55 p. Fontes minores Medii Aevi 18.
alternative title: Keuckenboeck van de Tollenaar van Lobith.

Het eerste Nederlandsche gedrukte kookboek :
Brussel, Thomas van der Noot, c. 1510.
1925 ['s-Gravenhage : M. Nijhoff] Facsimile-uitgave naar het eenig
bekende exemplaar in de Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München.
Dutch  Book [60] p.
Alternative title: Notabel boecxken van cokeryen.
Also:
Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen :
het eerste gedrukte Nederlandstalige kookboek circa 1514 uitgegeven te
Brussel door Thomas Vander Noot /
Ria Jansen-Sieben;  Marleen van der Molen-Willebrands
1994 Amsterdam : De KAN, ISBN: 9080120162 . 2 v. : ill.

The above title is given as the earliest printed Dutch cookbook, circa
1510. Consists of 60 pages. One surviving copy. Some recipes taken from
Le Viandier.
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Receptboecxken 1589-- some culinary recipes are included. Mentioned in
PPC.

Koock-boeck by Vorselman. 1599. 1560 edition published in Delft. was
published as Eenen Nyeuwen Coock Boeck, Kookboek samengesteld door
Gheeraert Vorselman en gekrukt te Antwerpen in 1560. Weisbaden: Guido
Pressler, 1971. Cited in Regional Cuisines.

Coc-boeck was added to the second edition of Wirtsung's Medecyn-Boec in
1593. Cited in PPC.

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17th century--

Koocboek or the kitchenbook... 1612 Cited PPC.

De Cierlycke voorsnydinge :
aller tafel-gerechten, onderwÿsende hoe allerhande spÿsen, zo wel op de
vork, als zonder de zelve, aardiglik konnen voorgesneden, en in bequame
ordre omgedient worden.
1660. T'Amsterdam : By Hieronymus Sweerts ...,
[2], 96 p., [32] leaves of plates (1 folded)

The sensible cook :
Dutch foodways in the Old and the New World /
Peter G Rose. 1989 1st ed. [also 1998 edition.]
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ISBN: 0815602413
Includes index./ Bibliography: p. 129-132. Translation of: De
verstandige kok, a 1667 original text.

Matters of taste :
food and drink in seventeenth-century Dutch art and life /
Author: Barnes, Donna R.; Rose, Peter G.
Publication: Albany, N.Y. : Syracuse, N.Y. : Albany Institute of History
& Art ; Syracuse University Press, 2002
This is the new one that goes along with the 2002 exhibit in Albany.
Small recipe book included for open hearth Dutch cooking.

De borgerlyke tafel, om lang gesond sonder ziekten te leven :
Waar in van yder Spyse in't besonder gehandelt werd ... Mitsgarders een
beknopte manier van de spijsen voor te snijden, en een onderrechting der
schikkelijke wijfen, die men aan de tafel moet houden. Nevens de Schola
Salernitana /
Steven Blankaart.1683 Amsterdam : Jan ten Hoorn,
Dutch  Book [6], 192, [16] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill.

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Of possible interest--

Oranje Boven :
een culinaire geschiedenis met vorstelijke recepten /
Sonja van de Rhoer;  Joop Bromet
1997 Houten : Van Dishoeck, ISBN: 9026935773
Dutch  Book 176 p.

of lesser value but still nice pictures--
The Dutch table :
gastronomy in the golden age of the Netherlands /
Author: Riley, Gillian.
Publication: San Francisco : Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994

Another place to look is the 1998 TI article at
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~ferron/sca/as/articles/cookery.htm

Hope this helps--

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis

"Jones, Craig" wrote:>
> Folks,> Need some help...  I'm trying to get together some info for a friend on
> Dutch cooking.  So far I have 4 potential sources:>
> "Een vijftiende eeuws Zuid Nederlands kookboek", 1473,>
> A manuscript, a collection of recipes from Gent, has no name and is estimated to have been written between 1490 and 1525.>
> "Een notabel boexcken van cokeryen" by Thomas van der Noot, printed in 1510>
> "Eenen N yeuwen coock boeck" by Willem Vorsterman, printed in 1560.>
> Are any of these manuscripts available translated/untranslated, online
> or in a book modern enough to be in a library?>
> I'm happy to do some digging but I might be re-inventing the wheel here
> and someone might already know a heap about this topic...
> > Cheers,>
> Drake.