[Sca-cooks] Quinces in 14th century France
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius at verizon.net
Wed Dec 17 16:14:40 PST 2003
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
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