[Sca-cooks] cook books

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> > what sources do you suggest a *reasonably new* SCA cook. or cook interested
> > in old recipes...... buy?
>
> Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France & Italy. Odile Redon, Edward
> Schneider (Translator), Silvano Serventi. University of Chicago Press
>
> Cariadoc's Miscellany.
>
> Take a Thousand Eggs or More.
>
> ---
>
> Related question of my own: is Pleyn Delit a good book to give a
> fellow-cook who hasn't currently got any period cookbooks? All her friends
> have The Medieval Kitchen but if I give her a copy of Pleyn Delit then
> I'll have access to it if I have to check it for anything. (My copy went
> walkabout as a result of a failed demo planning years ago, and it's one of
> those things, like Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden, that I will not buy for
> myself...)
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net

It's not a horrid reference--at least they print the original. I must say
I use PD as a quick lookup if I am remembering something but not where I
found it, and it keeps my more valuable books safe and clean.

Margaret