[Sca-cooks] low-cost medieval cookbook sources

[Stefan li Rous]

Helen mentioned:
> > Although this is from India, it is from the Moghul Era, so it is
> > heavily
> > influenced by the Persians.  There are several kabab recipes in it.
>
> Thank you, I shall look into those-hopefully, the sticker shock is
> minimal?
> (I am preparing to go back to Grad School soon-everything is about
> the money!)
>
> Helen
>
> Who just spent $80 for on books of Medieval recipes and Feasts....

Does your group have local medieval cooking guild? Or is there one  
nearby? Perhaps you can arrange to borrow books from each other.

Also, I would highly recommend Master Cariadoc's series of books. He  
is not in it for the money and likely isn't charging what he could  
for them, (unlike the publisher of a certain Mongolian cookbook). The  
most well known is probably the Miscellany. But he also has a two  
volume set of reproductions of period cookbooks. They are copies of  
the originals only, so there are no redactions. But the two volumes  
will easily fill up a pair of two-inch 3-ring binders. They are  
reproduced four pages to each 8 1/2 by 11 page and sometimes the  
small type is rather small or smudged, but the price can not be beat.

Another source would be the online cookbooks which are becoming  
available. You might check this file in the FOOD-BOOKS section of the  
Florilegium for a listing of a lot of these books and sites:
online-ckbks-msg  (41K)  8/20/02    Online versions of period cookbooks.
   (hmmm. I do have a bunch more stuff to add to this file)

And there are now these cookbooks which can be found in the FOOD- 
MANUSCRIPTS section of the Florilegium:
About-Cheese-art  (12K)  3/ 4/05    "About Cheese" A tranlation by  
Aelianora de
                                        Wintringham of a 1556 letter  
on Swiss
                                        cheese and dairy products.
Eberhard-art      (91K)  6/29/05    A 15th century German recipe  
collection
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.
Guisados1-art    (220K)  5/28/01    A translation of Ruperto de Nola's
                                        1529 "Libre del Coch", part 1  
of 2
                                        by Lady Brighid ni Chiarain.
Guisados2-art    (116K)  5/28/01    "Libre del Coch". part 2 of 2.
                                        Lenten recipes.
Inntal-art        (32K)  6/29/05    An early 16th century recipe  
collection from
                                        Bavaria translated by Giano  
Balestriere.
Konigsberg-art    (28K)  6/29/05    A 15th century cookbook from East  
Prussia
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.
Romanian-ckbk-art (112K)  1/25/04    "A Translation of a 17th Century  
Romanian
                                        Cookbook" by Lord Petru cel  
paros Voda.

Nothing there that will likely help you in your current quest, but  
perhaps they will be of use to you in the future.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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