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

[Kathleen A. Roberts]

descriptions are fine... i tend to be an instictual cook. ;)
cailte

--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:20 PM -0500 Johnna Holloway 
<johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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