[Sca-cooks] Does anyone know anything about this book
Daniel Myers
doc at medievalcookery.com
Thu Jun 19 12:57:41 PDT 2003
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Lady Orlaith of Storvik wrote:
> I found this searching for Midevil cookbooks on ebay. Does anyone know
> anything about this book? They have 45 of them in a dutch auction but
> I
> don't want to bid if it's not a good source.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3527409310&category=11108
From the list archives:
> Traveling Dysshes review - Mark Harris
> Wed Jun 18 22:49:04 CDT 2003
>
> Caointiarn stated:
> > Another resource for the beggining cook is a pamphlet by Mistress
> > Siobhan Medhbh O'Roarke: Traveling Dysshes or, foods for wars,
peace,
> > and potlucks. I think it is a wonderful booklte for beginning
cooks,
> > and I have found the recipes I have used from it to be very well
> > recieved.
>
> I want to second this recommendation. I haven't spent any time
comparing
> the redactions to the originals so I can't comment on that. But the
lists
> of what foods were period and were not for Europe, ideas for camp
foods
> and the other non-recipe sections are great for new SCA cooks. I
definitely
> recommend this book.
>
> The wire binding for the book is quite useful when you want to open
the
> book and have it stay open while cooking but I don't know how durable
it
> will prove to be. For the same reason, use in a cooking environment,
the
> plastic coated cover is a good idea. Although sometimes I wish the
pages
> were laminated, too. :-)
>
> Stefan li Rous
- Doc
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