[Sca-cooks] Le menagier

[Terry Decker]

I can offer you the Pichon French translation of the recipes:

http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/menagier/

and an English translation of the gardening and housekeeping sections (with 
references to sage):

http://www.techbrothers.com/library/_VARIOUS/A_Medieval_Home_Companion_Housekeeping_in_the_Fourteenth_Century%5BHTM%5D.htm

Bear




> Ok, if someone is familiar with either Le Menagier in the original or
> another translation than Janet Hinson's... the menus in Hinson's
> translation repeatedly refer to 'cold sage soup'. But there's no direct
> recipe for this. Can I safely assume it is the cold chicken in sage
> sauce being referenced?
>
> I'm doing a treatise on sage and so I'm checking out the various
> documents and recipes mentioning it.
>
> -- 
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net