[Sca-cooks] Pears in cream?

[Daniel Myers]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Terri Morgan wrote:

> Help!
>    I was taught a recipe a long, long time ago of pears stewed in a 
> heavy
> cream with various spices... told that it was "period", I've never 
> bothered
> to go searching for the actual recipe in print. Tomorrow I'm doing a 
> small
> demo at a weaver's guild meeting and it's a potluck - it occurs to me 
> that
> "they say it's period" really isn't going to cut it for my level of
> authenticity. Does anyone have any quickie information about where I 
> could
> find the recipe (does it really exist)? I mean... I'm going to keep 
> making
> and eating it but that doesn't mean I'll be willing to tell folks that 
> it
> was served in the medieval period!
>    I looked in the Miscellany but was boggled by the list of other 
> online
> recipe collections.


 From a quick search, I can't find *any* pears-in-cream type recipes in 
the following sources:
	Forme of Cury
	Liber cure cocorum
	Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco
	Le Menagier de Paris (Janet Hinson, trans.)
	A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye
	Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books
	Le Viandier de Taillevent

That doesn't mean it's not period though.  Any clues on what part of 
the world it's supposed to be from?

- Doc


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