[Sca-cooks] Spirits of hartshorn

Barbara Benson vox8 at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 9 16:13:20 PST 2004


> Bear> Hartshorn is ammonium carbonate and IIRC there is an in period
reference to
> its use in one of the German cookbooks

Greetings,

Is this what you are referring to?

>From a cookbook from the archives of the Teutonic order, 15th Century,
Translated by Volker Bach.

[[16]] Wilthu machenn ein Hirßcornn:
item zu der zeytt alls es weig ist so nim das Gehürnn und seidtt das und
mach es sauber und schneidt das zu Scheinenn alls vill du wilst ader des
Gehirns gebinenn magst und nim ein Honeg vnd seudt die Unsauberlichkeitt
davon und nim dan Leckuchen und ßebe in und nim dan die Peis (?) die du nitt
gewinenn canst und hacke die und stoß die clein unnd nyme ein wenig Honegs
und geribenn Leckuchenn und deß Hirenn Swayß und streich es durch ein Thuch
und leg das Gehornn darein und laß es siedenn.

If you want to make hartshorn
Take the horn (antlers) when they are soft and boil them and cut them into
/Scheinenn/ (strips? slices?) as much as you like or can get of the antler.
Take honey and boil the impurities out of it, then take gingerbread and
sieve it. The /Peiß/ (?) that you can not get you take and chop finely. Add
honey and ground gingerbread and the hart's blood and pass that through a
cloth. Place the antler in it and boil it.

Glad Tidings,
Serena da Riva




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