[Sca-cooks] Re: provencal Recipes

[Sydney Walker Freedman]

Do you mean to say that the recipes are in Occitan?  (It is related to
French, Spanish, and Catalan, by the way.)  I would like to see them. 
Also, I have heard that the early 13th century northern cookery book that
Rudolf Grewe translated may be a translation of a Provencal cookbook.  Any
thoughts?  Can anyone confirm this idea (or not)?

Pax Christi,
Cecilia de Cambrige

>   Urtatim wrote:
> Barbara Santich in "The Original Mediterranean Cuisine" includes two
> recipes from a Meridionale cookbook (that's southern France, not
> necessarily Provence, but doubtless close). They are for stuffed
> fresh sardines (quite different from the canned version) and for
> blancmange.There are apparently two versions of the original:
> Anonimo Meridionale/Libro A
> and
> Anonimo Meridionale/Libro B
> I don't recall seeing them - or maybe they're on Thomas Gloning's
> site - but it's in Langue d'Oc, which is unlike Medieval French
> (feels like a combo of French, Catalan, and Italian), and i can't
> read it well yet.
>
> OK I have both of them at home.  To me they read like an Italian dialect
> and I have always taken them to be southern Italian in origin.  That is
> generally how they are identified in the Italian culinary sources.  I know
> from the times I have browsed them that the recipes are very similar to
> those in the martino corpus.  But then again when you look across europe
> there were very many dishes in common across the royal cultures.
> Blancmange, losyns, white tart, to name just a few. I'll have a look at
> them again tonight and see how it pans out.
>   The one thing that I would say about the food in the warmer climes is
> that you find a lot more salads and raw fruit turning up in the menus.
>   I once did a lunch for the laurel meeting at Pennsic with Mistress
> Rachaol based on a menu from August from Scappi.  It was based on the
> first and last courses, everything was served cold, from the ham, to the
> pies, to the salads and fruit.  Serving the number of people you need to
> serve should certainly be doable.
>   Helewyse
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Pax Christi,
Sydney