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

[Elaine Koogler]

Terry Decker wrote:

> 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
>
Thanks for the clarification...I forgot my history, should have known 
that!  However, if the area was ruled by Arabic familes up until the 
time the Mughals took over, the recipes still, I think, fall into my 
umbrella description of "Islamic".

Kiri