[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #3247 - 17 msgs

[Louise Smithson]

Lavender de Morten wrote
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I would love to get a hold of  a full copy and
translation if there is one available.
>
I might be called a crazy translating fool, but Scappi
is almost too big a project for me.
Scappi has six books, the first detailing how to
choose items (44 paragraphs), 2nd with meat dishes
(281 recipes), 3rd giving fish dishes (286 recipes),
4th containing menus for the entire year (328 menus),
5th giving pastry recipes (237 recipes), 6th
containing miscellaneous recipes and those for the
convalescent (218 recipes), and 7th giving the
instruments necessary for a well equipped kitchen (8
pages of text and some beautiful pictures).
Overall this book is an overwhelming, and fantastic
resource.  Generally what I do when I am feeling like
cooking Italian is think of an ingredient and find a
recipe I want to try.
e.g. venison pie (yes I am a spoon tease but haven't
quite finished with those translations and redactions
yet so you can wait just a little bit longer).
Then translate that particular recipe.  My brain
freezes at the contemplation of the entire book.
I don't know what the chances are of a scholar taking
on that particular manuscript either.  It would be
terribly expensive. So in the absence of a translation
we are stuck with doing it one recipe at at time.

Helewyse

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