[Sca-cooks] Food paintings

[Elaine Koogler]

Are you looking for vessels that are specifically named...like the 
reference in the "Garnished Turnips" recipe in the Neopolitan Recipe 
Collection, "...lay out these slices in a torte pan in layers..." or for 
descriptions, like "... take a pot that should be a bit large and made 
of clay, with a flat bottom,..."  from de Nola?  And are you just 
looking for vessels or for things like wooden spatulas, colanders or 
graters, etc.?

Kiri

kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:

>While you are looking, I should tell you that the project I'm starting on
>now is to identify recipes (and paintings would be really helpful as well)
>that specify a particular type of cooking vessel.  This comes from spending
>the weekend with (now) Mistress Honnoria, who was the one responsible for
>many of the period pottery cookware I had at Pennsic.  She has a book on
>pottery cookware now, with about a dozen examples of period pots and various
>utensils like a drippings pan to be placed below a roast to catch drippings
>to make sauces with (there was some discussion about that last week, I
>believe).  So, she and I talked and I said I'd like to start with recipes
>for things that call for a specific cook pot, and then she could produce
>said pot, then we could cook the recipe in it, etc.  We did this at Pennsic
>with one dish which specifically called for a pipkin, which we used and it
>worked beautifully.
>So, in everyone's various wanderings through period texts, if you come
>across a recipe that specifies a certain type of vessel for the preparation
>of the food, I'd be appreciative if you could bring it to my attention.  I
>will start compiling a list of types of vessels and recipes that call for
>them.
>Thanks,
>Christianna
>
>
>
>http://gallery.euroweb.hu/
>
>Ok, so I'm slowly digging through the above web archive in search of
>paintings featuring foods (especially pies) and I find myself thinking
>grumpy thoughts about the painters, such as:
>
>	"He calls that a banquet?  There's nothing on the table but a half a
>loaf of bread and an empty glass!"
>
>
>What's worse, the more tired I get, the more I'm looking for paintings
>with titles like:
>
>	"The Virgin Mary and Child Being Fed a Tart of Cherries"
>
>	"Saint Sebastian With the Bakers"
>
>... and the ever popular ...
>
>	"Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist in a Standing Crust"
>
>
>I should probably give up for the night and go to bed, eh?
>
>- Doc
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