[Sca-cooks] Provencal Recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

There is an actual source for Provencal recipes dating from
the Middle Ages.
Carole Lambert wrote her PhD  using such a manuscript.
The thesis is titled--
Trois réceptaires culinaires médiévaux : Les Enseingnemenz, les Doctrine
et le Modus Édition critique et glossaire détaillé /
Carole Lambert 1989
French  Book :  xiv, 303 f.
[Montréal] : Université de Montréal,
Contact your library to see about ILLoan.
[Her MS was titled---
Edition d'un recueil de recettes culinaires et d'un réceptaire sur les
greffes inédits du XVe siècle (Paris, B.N. Latin 6707) /
Carole Lambert French  Book vi, 92 f. [Montréal] : Université de
Montréal, 1983. Don't let the library staff at ILLoan get the two mixed up.]

She refers to the collection of recipes as Modus and refers
to them in her chapter on Southern France that appears
in  Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays, ed.
Melitta Weiss Adamson (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), xviii +
254 pages.
That would be an excellent place to start to research the topic by the way.
She's the co-author of Fêtes gourmandes au Moyen Âge  along with
Jean-Louis Flandrin; which appeared in 1998.

Hope this helps.

Johnnae llyn Lewis