[Sca-cooks] Quinces in 14th century France

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach James Prescott:
>  > Any other 14th century quince pastes (or quince recipes) out that 
>that I should be looking for?
>
>
>There are mentions of quince, and one recipe, in Chiquart.
>
>Check French Tacuinum Sanitatis (sorry, I have no reference).
>
>Thorvald

It is alleged by the Larousse Gastronomique that cotignac has been an 
industrial product of the city of... I think... Poitiers... since the 
Hundred Years' War. They still sell it in round ingots stamped with a 
picture of Joan of Arc.

Adamantius