[Sca-cooks] Earliest Viking area post-Viking cookbooks

[Decker, Terry D.]

The cookbooks you list are essential the same text and appear to be derived
from earlier Latin or French texts which were translated into German and
from there into Danish.  The recipes are not Scandinavian and probably do
not accurately reflect Scandinavian cooking.

Codex K, which is the earlier of the manuscripts, is usually dated 1300.
The translation to Danish is usually attributed to Henrik Harpestraeng, the
royal physician, who died in 1244.  Codex K was the primary source for the
Kristensen translatation.

Codex Q is a second Danish translation dating from 1350.

A German version of this recipe collection can be found in the
Mittleniederdeutsches Kochbuch (15th Century).

The first true Scandinavian cookbook is the Danish Kogebog from 1616.

Bear


> I am trying to compile a list of the earliest 2-3 cookbooks 
> for the various
> Viking areas.  Since there are no actual Viking cookbooks, 
> the earliest ones
> seem to be at around 50-100+ years later or more.  Lists of 
> archeological
> findings would be helpful as well.
> 
> Some are:
> 
> 1100's-maybe: Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern 
> Cookery Book
> (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series), V. 222.)
> by Rudolf Grewe (Editor), Constance B. Hieatt (Editor), which 
> has been found
> in Danish, Icelandic, & Low German.
> 
> 1300, 1350: Kristensen, M. Harpestrang, Gamle danske 
> Urtebøger, Stenbøger,
> og
> Kogebøger (Old Danish Urte-books, Stone-books, and 
> Cookbooks). Copenhagen:
> Thiele. 1908-1920.
> 
> 
> Is there any sort of written or archeological evidence that 
> roman style
> recipes would have been used with northern european foods in 
> roman occupied
> areas...perhaps a sort of modification of Apicius for foods locally
> available at the time?
> 
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
>