[Sca-cooks] Since things are quiet. What do you want for Christmas?
Tallan Family
dtallan8500 at rogers.com
Sat Dec 9 05:57:28 PST 2006
If you can't wait, there are plenty of resources on the Internet that
will let you do some more in-depth research. Here are some of the ones
I use:
Primary Sources
English or Translated Sources
· Andalusian Cookbook (Moorish/Spanish 13thC)
(http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/
andalusian_contents.htm)
· Mead recipe from Tractatus de magnete et operationibus eius
(English 13thC)
(http://www.uab.edu/reynolds/tractatus/folio20r.htm)
· Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de
viandes (French c. 1300)
(http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/lessons.shtm)
· Ein Buch von guter spise (German c.1345-1354)
(http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Buch/buch.html) - Note: I've been
warned about errors in this translation.
· Le Viandier de Taillevent (French 14th C)
(http://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/viandier/
viandier1.html)
· Forme of Cury (English c.1390)
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/)
· Le Menagier de Paris (French c.1390)
(http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/
Menagier_Contents.html)
· Libro di cucina and Libro per cuoco (Anonimo Veneziano) (Italian
14th 15th C)
(http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html)
· Anonimo Toscano, Libro della Cocino (Italian late 14th or early
15th C)
(http://www.geocities.com/anahita_whitehorse/LibroDellaCocina.html)
· Chiquart: De Fait de Cuisine (French c.1420)
(http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/
du_fait_de_c_contents.html)
· Liber Cure Cocorum (English c.1430)
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/)
· Austen: Two Fifteenth-century Cookery Books (English c.1430 1450)
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/c/cme/cme-idx?type=HTML&
rgn=TEI.2&byte=3356093)
· Two Fifteenth Century Cookery-books - search (English c.1430
1450)
(http://www.bookofrefreshments.com/cgi-bin/tfccb.pl)
· Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard (German 15thC)
(http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Eberhard-art.html)
· Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens (German 15thC)
(http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Konigsberg-art.html)
· MS Pepys 1047 (English 15thC)
(http://www.godecookery.com/pepys/pepys.htm)
· Inntalkochbuch (German late 15th early 16th C)
(http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Inntal-art.html)
· Wel ende edlike spise (Dutch c1500)
(http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/)
· Manual de mujeres en el cual se contienen muchas y diversas
recetas muy buenas (Spanish 16thC)
(http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/manual.htm)
· Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen (Dutch c.1510)
(http://users.pandora.be/willy.vancammeren/NBC/index.htm)
· Libro del Coch Pt.1 (Spanish c.1529)
(http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Guisados1-art.html)
· Libro del Coch Pt. 2 (Spanish c.1529)
(http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Guisados2-art.html)
· Von Speisen, natuerlichen und kreuter Wein, aller verstand
(German c.1531)
(http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Speisen/about.html)
· A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye (English c.1545)
(http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/bookecok.htm)
· Sabrina Welserin (German c.1553)
(http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html)
· Ein New Kochbuch (German c.1581)
(http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm)
· A Book of Cookrye (English c.1591)
(http://jducoeur.org/Cookbook/Cookrye.html)
Untranslated Sources
· Monumenta Culinaria et Diaetetica Historica: Corpus of culinary
& dietetic texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (Thomas
Gloning’s collection)
(http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/kobu.htm)
· Grewe Biblioteca Collection: Facsimiles of 16th century dietary
and culinary texts from the collections of the University of Barcelona
(http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe1.htm)
· Anthimus, De observatione ciborum (Latin, 6thC)
(http://www.accademiajr.it/bibvirt/anthimi.html)
· Fedalat Al-Jiwan fi tayyibat al-ta'am wa-l-alwan by Abu l-Hasan
'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abí l-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abí Bakr ibn Razin
al-Tuyibi al-Andalusí (Spanish c.1228-1243) (Archived)
(http://web.archive.org/web/20050206154555/http://www.ateneu.com/
receptes/arabigo.html)
· De flore dietarum (Latin, early 13thC)
("http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/cantalupo/
un_trattatello_medioevale_salernitano_sull_alimentazione_etc/html/
index.htm)
· Kokebokmanuskript (Norwegian, c.1300)
(http://www.notaker.com/onlitxts/molbech.htm)
· Um tratado da cozinha portuguesa do século XV (Portuguese, 15thC)
(http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?portal=0&Ref=10453)
· Johannes de Bockenheim, Registrum coquine (Latin, c1431-1435)
(http://expositions.bnf.fr/gastro/grands/171.htm)
· Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck, Carolus Battus
(Dutch, c.1593)
(http://www.kookhistorie.com/cb/index_cb.htm)
Related Sources
Accounts
· Household expenses of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster c1313-14
(http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/expenses.html)
· Account roll (compotus) of the manor of Presteigne c1384-5
(http://history.powys.org.uk/history/prest/compot1.html)
· William Wey, What to bring on a sea-voyage to Jerusalem 15thC
(http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/varia/pilgrimage/wm-
wey.html)
· Expenses of Aragonese ambassadors in England c1415
(http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/
aragon.html)
· Account roll (compotus) of Miaxter() Priory c1424-5
(http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/acctroll.html)
Manners and Service
· The Babee’s Book
(http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/babees_rickert.pdf)
· The Menagier, A Wife's Duties c.1393
(http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/goodman.html)
· A Generall rule to teche euery man that is willynge for to
lerne… to serve a lorde or mayster 15thC
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/c/cme/cme-idx?type=HTML&
rgn=TEI.2&byte=11992541)
· Stans puer ad mensam 15thC
(http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/tablebear2.html)
· John Russell’s Book of Nurture c.1460
(http://jrider.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2001f/fren234/01/
bookofnurture.htm)
· Urbanitatis c.1460
(http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/
urbanit.html)
· The Little Children's Little Book c.1480
(http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/
childbk.html)
· The Boke of Kervynge c.1508
(http://milkmama.tripod.com/kervynge2.html)
· The manner of serving a knight, esquire, or gentleman at table
c.1577
(http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/serv.html)
Others
· Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum
(http://www.godecookery.com/regimen/regimen.htm)
· Tacuinum Sanitatis
(http://www.godecookery.com/tacuin/tacuin.htm)
Miscellaneous Sites and Resources
· Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages
(http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1265/calcohol.html)
· ASPNS Bibliography 6: Agriculture & Food History
(http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/ihsl/projects/ASPNS/bib6.htm)
· Building and Using a Medieval-Style Hemispherical Bake Oven
(http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/brikoven.html)
· Chiquart chronologie livres cuisine medievale
(http://chiquart.free.fr/chrono.htm)
· Demi-Sun Bakery: Medieval Baking
(http://www.whirlwind-design.com/madbaker/demisun.html)
· Dictionary.com
(http://www.dictionary.com/translate/)
· Eating Utensils
(http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/feastgear.htm)
· Feast Gear: Tableware and Eating Utensils links
(http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?
action=displaycat&catid=737)
· Feast Illuminations
(http://www.godecookery.com/afeast/afeast.htm)
· Food Timeline
(http://www.foodtimeline.org/)
· Francesco Sirene, Spicer
(http://www.silk.net/sirene)
· Humoural Theory
(http://home.earthlink.net/~mkcooks/HumouralTheory.htm)
· Manuscript Abbreviations
(http://www.sca.org.au/cunnan/wiki/Manuscript_reproduction)
· Medieval Farm Management Treatises
(http://www.minarsas.demon.co.uk/harn/farming/index.htm)
· Medieval Food for Vegetarians
(http://web.archive.org/web/20020804174835/http://infotrope.net/sca/
cooking/veg/)
· Medieval-Renaissance Food Clip-Art Collection
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/)
· Middle English Dictionary
(http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/med/)
· Online Culinary History Network
(http://culinaryhistory.org/)
· The Origins and Antecedents of Italian Renaissance Cuisine
(http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/oak/11/italren.htm)
· Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery Index
(http://members.tripod.com/rdeh/sympcontents.html)
· Pepperer's Guild Order Page
(http://members.cox.net/periac/page2.html)
· A review of the archaeological evidence for food plants from the
British Isles
(http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue1/tomlinson/toc.html)
· Suggestions to the Novice on Cooking Large Quantities of Food
with Inadequate Facilities for Great Crowds of People
(http://www3.sympatico.ca/jpolowin/Cookguid.htm)
· Viking Food
(http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/food.shtml)
Of course, there are also a ton of sites people have set up on the
topic of medieval cooking. Here are a few general resource sites, they
should point to most of the rest.
· Gavvin’s Keep: The Kitchen (Archived)
(http://web.archive.org/web/20040603014015/http://applink.net/wolfpack/
kitchen.html)
· GodeCookery.com
(http://www.godecookery.com/)
· Katja's Medieval Cooking & Food Page
(http://www.katjaorlova.com/MedFood.html)
· Medieval Cookery
(http://www.medievalcookery.com/)
· Medieval-Renaissance Food Homepage
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html)
· Professor Martha Carlin's Home Page
(http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/
#MEDIEVAL%20AND%20EARLY%20MODERN%20CULINARY%20TEXTS)
· And, of course, Stefan's Florilegium Archive
(http://www.florilegium.org/)
That should give you a start if you want to do some more in-depth
research,
David (SCA Thomas)
On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Chawkswrth at aol.com wrote:
> I want a good Period/Research Cookbook-or two or three. I have "The
> Medieval
> Kitchen" and "Pleyn Delit." Just want something that will give me a
> chance to
> do more in-depth research.
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