[Sca-cooks] Romanian Cookbook

[Varju at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/14/2003 1:19:29 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:

> Have you looked at the recipes of Marxen Rumpolt?
> While he was a German, he grew up in Hungary and
> has some recipes that he labels as being "in the
> Hungarian style".  I would consider these the
> closest you can get at the moment.  Romania was
> not the same country as Hungary any more that
> Poland was.  I wouldn't use Romanian recipes for
> Hungarian. Just because they are Eastern
> European, doesn't mean they had the same roots.
> 
> Huette
> 

I have looked at Marx Rumpolt, but without more knowledge of what Hungarian 
cooking was like at the time I can't say how close any of his recipes are to 
Hungarian ones.  The recipes saying it is "in the Hungarian style" could merely 
indicates it is what someone thinks the Hungarian style of cooking was, not 
what it really was.  Also,  there was a significant German popularion in parts 
of Hungary During Rumpolt's time and those recipes may only reflect the cooking 
of that group.

The Romanian recipes are the cloest I can get at this point geographically, 
and there is a possibility of some crossover, especially in Transylvania where 
bother groups lived close together and there is already evidence for a 
crossover in culture.  Also, when there is precious little by way of recipes from 
either country I'm happy to get anything from that region.

Noemi