[Sca-cooks] tart crust question

Susan Fox-Davis selene at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 14 11:33:27 PDT 2004


May I forward this cookbook list to some other lists?  Caidcooks and 
Darach_Cooks would profit from it, particulary the Dutch persona folks 
in Darach, Lorenz and Mayken to name two.

Selene

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>--- Christina L Biles <bilescl at okstate.edu>
>wrote:
>
>>I'm looking at The Sensible Cook, which
>>contains a translation of a 1683 
>>Dutch cookbook De Verstandige Kock.   Does
>>anyone have the original Dutch? 
>> Specifically, I am in search of a specific
>>recipe.   Rose translates it 
>>thus:
>>
>>To Make Dough for Taerten
>>
>>Take Wheat-flour, Butter, Rosewater, Sugar, and
>>a few eggs each as 
>>appropriate.
>>
>>I am wondering if it is eggs or egg yolks.  I
>>have several recipes for pie 
>>crusts, both modern and sixteenth century,
>>which call for egg yolks, but 
>>none for eggs. 
>>
>>
>>Rose, Peter G. (1989). The sensible cook :
>>Dutch foodways in the Old and 
>>the New World. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse
>>University Press, ; ISBN: 
>>0815602413
>>
>>-Magdalena
>>
>
>Here is the original:
>
>123 Om deegh te maken tot taerten
>Neemt terwenmeel, boter, rooswater, suycker ende
>een weynigh eyeren, van yder naer behooren.
>
>While my Dutch isn't great, Ms. Rose's 
>translation appears correct.
>
>This whole cookbook can be found at this website:
>
>http://www.kookhistorie.com/index.htm
>
>Here are several other period Dutch cookbooks
>available on the web:
>
>Keukenboek (UB Gent Hs. 1035, 15th century)
>http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/serrure.htm
>
>"Wel ende edelike spijse", c.1500 A.D. -
>Manuscript UB GENT 1035, in modern Dutch and
>English:
>http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/Edelikespijse0.htm
>
>Het eerste gedrukte Nederlandsche kookboek,
>Brussel, Thomas vander Noot (+/- 1510)
>http://users.pandora.be/willy.vancammeren/NBC/index.htm
>
>Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen. 1514
>http://www.kookhistorie.com/index.htm
>
>Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck,
>Carolus Battus, Dordrecht, 1593
>http://www.kookhistorie.com/index.htm
>
>Huette
>
>
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