[Sca-cooks] In need of English Ren feast menus

[Terry Decker]

Hmmm, here are some sources to take a look at:

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/feast.h
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http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/bookecok.htm

And a slightly earlier menu:

http://mysticwomen.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/recipes.html

I don't know of an immediate source online, but Michael Best's edition of
Gervase Markham's "The English Housewife" has a long paragraph on the
"Ordering of banquets" (essentially a course of sweets) and several pages on
"Ordering of great feasts and proportion of expense."

And, IIRC, "Fabulous Feasts" has quite a bit of information on feasts and
menus which is much superior to the recipes.

Bear

>Tatiana asked:
>> I am seeking some actual feast menus that would have been served
>> during the
>> English Renaissance period. The feasts could be for anyone from minor
>> nobility to high royalty. Does anyone have a source (preferably
>> electronic)
>> or menus you could forward to me?