[Sca-cooks] Late 14th - early 15th c. Welsh

[Stephen Bloch]

>Can someone point me in the direction of some possible recipe's for 
>this time period.

A booklet exists titled "Bwydd y Beirdd" ["Food of the Bards"], which 
purports to be medieval Welsh recipes.  When I finally got hold of a 
copy, it turned out to be medieval Welsh textual glosses describing 
food and/or feasting, with accompanying recipes from medieval English 
sources <sigh>

Further, on Dec. 27, 1997, Mistress Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn 
wrote:  "I have a couple of very short cooking treatises in Welsh 
from the 16th c., along with my own translations....They're mostly of 
interest as curiosities -- they give no serious insight into Welsh 
cookery, being fairly obvious translations of some unknown English 
work of the time."

Just a couple data points from
Rufina Cambrensis
(posting from John/Steve's account)
-- 
                                     John Elys
          (the artist formerly known as mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib)
                                 mka Stephen Bloch
                                 sbloch at adelphi.edu