[Sca-cooks] 12th century food... england and france

[Johnna Holloway]

Descriptions yes---
Actual recipes --- no.
That's about a century too early for the surviving French or English 
manuscripts
we have. The early 13th is covered by:LIBELLUS DE ARTE COQUINARIA

An Early Northern Cookery Book by Grewe and Hieatt.

The LIBELLUS is among the oldest of culinary recipe
Collections & dates from the early thirteenth century.
It survives in 4 versions: Danish, Icelandic, & Low German.
It is thought to date back to the 12th century.
It ís a small collection of only 35 recipes.
Society members have known it for many years as the
Collection published AN OLD ICELANDIC MEDICAL
MISCELLANY [Ms. Royal Irish Academy 23D 43.]in
1931 by Henning Larsen.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Kathleen A. Roberts wrote:

> can anyone give me some leads on hunting down some early recipes?  i 
> am working on a midwinter proposal and intrepid hubby and i are 
> looking at 'lion in winter' feel/time/theme. (please don't wince... 
> the last one was based on a holly king pic in a whiskey advert... and 
> it worked!)
> thanks to all  cailte
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