[Sca-cooks] making vinegar
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Thu Nov 18 09:46:58 PST 2004
>>I don't suppose you know of a period cookbook with an actual recipe for
>>vinegar? I'm still having trouble documenting it.
>>
>>Elewyiss
>
>Stere Htt Well ("A book of medieval refinements, recipes and
>remedies from a manuscript in Samuel Pepys's library" - Pepys
>Library ms 1047) has a recipe. Though the Pepys is OOP, the ms. is
>perhaps 15th century. This is a facing-page translation, with no
>redactions. The Introduction by Delia Smith, on the other hand, is
>one of those hideous "disguise the smell and flavour of decaying
>flesh" sorts of things (thank goodness for libraries).
The modern English translations are also unreliable. It's the source
for our "that no egg may escape" translation anecdote--the translator
knew about the 15th c. word for egg, and as a result mistranslated
"air" as "egg." The recipe has no eggs in it.
--
David/Cariadoc
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