[Sca-cooks] Sultan's Book of Delights-- late 15th century

[Terry Decker]

The recipes won't be Mughal.  Your source is late 15th Century and the 
Mughal dynasty begins with Babur the Tiger in 1526.  The region from which 
the recipes derive was taken by the Arabs in 712 and there were several 
Arabic ruling families before the Mughals annexed the region.  The area 
wasn't annexed by Tamerlane and his descendents (IIRC), but there were ties 
between the two groups of rulers, so the Mongol and Persian influence of 
Tamerlane's court may have been brought into the culinary tradition.

Bear

> Probably I should define the feast more clearly as "Islamic"...and I do 
> have a copy of Perry's "Medieval Arab Cookery", which I also plan to use. 
> I just thought it might be intriguing to include some Mughal recipes from 
> India.  We see a fair number of ME dishes in feasts here, but very rarely 
> do we see anything that is Mughal or Indian.
>
> Kiri
>
> PS:  I may also include some dishes from the Spanish Moors, not to mention 
> Naples, if I locate any!