[Sca-cooks] SCA-Period Ottoman Cookbook

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Patrick Levesque <petruvoda at videotron.ca> wrote:
>I actually tried two of these recipes already - they are quite delicious!

I assume you used Cirvani's recipes and not Yerasimos's modern ones :-)

>I'm not so sure about the meat always being lamb or mutton - I have a
>feeling this may be an assumption by Yerasimos.

I agree that there could be other meats, so other than goat, what 
else do you think is likely? Yerasimos writes in his one of his 
essays about how with the strictures of Islam on meat, making what is 
hunted practically haram - because you have to pray directly over the 
animal before you kill it - (there are some "cheats" such as praying 
over your weapon before sending it into the animal) so gradually 
deer/gazelles/etc., rabbit/hares, and other wild prey were eliminated 
from the diets of most Muslims.

>Especially in the
>Tuffahiyya, where his translation of the recipe is, by mistake, is actual
>redaction!

Which one? Yerasimos published two quite different Tuffahiyyes.

>This said, Charles Perry mentions Sirvani in his introduction to his latest
>translation of "A Baghdad Cookery Book" -

Which i'll be ordering this week :-)

>maybe he could confirm this (and
>tell us whether he plans to translate Sirvani eventually :-))

THAT would be great.

Until then, i'm going to be translating the French versions of the 
originals for SCA purposes. And i'll post them here...
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