[Sca-cooks] Cookbooks with period recipes for beginners

[kattratt]

LOL Shucks and here I just pat them on their happy little butts and send 
them online to one of ya'll's websites.  
That is just to start and get people interested in the fun recipes. 
 Half of the cooks on this list have so heavily researched most recipes 
that it is great for beginners to read those first.  The one thing I 
would love to see in a modernized or for beginners book is pictures of 
the end product.  
Nichola
Throwing his tupence in.  


Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:

>Just what I said.  The genre of "sources for newcomers who want to bring 
>period food with them to an event".  That can include any of the types you've 
>listed above, depending on the individual newcomers' familiarity with cooking.  
>The key thing here is that, while they may or may not know something about 
>cooking, they don't know anything about period food or recipes.  This particular 
>cookbook (Travelling Dysshes) is, in my opinion, a poor example of this sort of 
>source because the recipes are usually poor redactions and if you don't know 
>how to compare a redaction to an original, you won't know that.  So you'll 
>think you are bringing "period food" when you aren't.  This is compounded by the 
>fact that, in the earlier edition at least, not all of the recipes actually 
>come from period sources; some of them are clearly of the "this was served for a 
>feast so it must be period" variety.  Some of these have been retained in the 
>second edition, although they've been identified as such and placed in a 
>separate chapter, which is a significant improvement.
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