[Sca-cooks] Menagier Question

[Alex Clark]

At 03:09 PM 3/16/2004 -0800, Crystal of the Westermark wrote:
>IIRC, from reading the forward of Powers a long time ago, she freely 
>admits she edited quite a lot away. I really prefer Hinson, or the bits of 
>Menagier in Scully's _Early French Cookery_,  to Powers' translation.

If one can make head or tail of French, I recommend consulting the (not yet 
complete) webbed version in the original French at 
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/menagier/ rather than relying on Hinson's 
translation alone. She seems to have made some unnecessary and unsupported 
assumptions -- for instance, she rendered "leschefrites et darioles" as 
"fried bread slices and meat tarts" rather than recognizing the apparent 
reference to the foods described in Middle English recipes as "leche frys 
and daryols".

-- 
Henry of Maldon/Alex Clark