[Sca-cooks] Honey butter query

[Stefan li Rous]

Master Cariadoc asked:
> I'm working on a review of the Savelli book (on Anglo-Saxon cooking),
> and before making a very strong statement on the nonexistence of
> evidence for honey-butter as a spread, I wanted to check here to see
> if there was anything I had missed. I know about Anthimus, who
> describes a medicinal use. That aside, is there any period reference
> that anyone here knows of to using honey butter as a spread?
> --

Here are the files in the Florilegium which have information on this.
I'm afraid I don't have time to go through the files myself right now,
and I don't know what you have seen and what you haven't.
Honey-Butter-art  (20K) 11/17/01    "Is Honey Butter Period?" by THL Katja
                                        Davidova Orlova Khazarina.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-CONDIMENTS/Honey-Butter-art.html
butter-msg       (124K)  8/26/02    Period butter. Making butter. Butter churns.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/butter-msg.html

Stefan li Rous