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

[Stefan li Rous]

Sharon commented:
> 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:
>
<snip>
>
> 1300, 1350: Kristensen, M. Harpestrang, Gamle danske Urtebøger,
> Stenbøger, og
> Kogebøger (Old Danish Urte-books, Stone-books, and Cookbooks).
> Copenhagen: Thiele. 1908-1920.
If you are wanting books with food eaten by the Norse, then this book 
is not one you want. This one is fron another area (southern Europe?) 
and many of the food items in it would not have been available. For 
more details on this book, actually several different versions from an 
original copy which has been lost, see this file in the FOOD-BOOKS 
section of the Florilegium:
Harpstrang-cb-msg (34K) 10/19/99    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The 
oldest
                                        cookbook in the Western world.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/Harpstrang-cb-msg.html

Stefan
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