[Sca-cooks] Recipe Books

[Terry Decker]

With Platina you have a manual on health which incorporated a cookbook
written by another author, Master Martino.

Bear


>On 9 Mar 2003, at 21:09, Luanne Bartholomew wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't most of our recipe sources
>> actually more like health manuals?
>
>I think you're confusing cookbooks with health manuals.  There was some
>overlaps.  Some of the medieval cookbooks commented on the health
>aspects of the recipes; many did not.  And the recipes in medieval
>cookbooks are not necessarily healthy by the standards of the time.  Have
>you read Platina?  Many of his recipes end with comments such as "this has
>little nourishment in it" or "it is difficult to digest, and causes
squeamishness
>and pain".
>
>> Irmele
>
>
>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann