[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks....
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Tue Jul 18 16:28:10 PDT 2006
Sue Clemenger wrote:
> For some reason, Christianna's post today about the little girl's cookbook
> had me remembering my first cookbook, which led me to wonder about the rest
> of you....
> 1. What was the first cookbook you ever owned, all by yourself?
I think it was a McCall's cookbook that I got as a wedding present,
first time out. I still use several of the recipes from it, including
an absolutely incredible crown roast (pork) stuffed with green apples
and some wonderful seasonings.
> 2. What was the first cookbook you remember cooking from?
I guess it would be this same book, though many of my recipes are and
have been ones that I inherited from my mother. She never really taught
me to cook, but I guess I kind of absorbed her skills. There are a
number of her recipes that I still cook...actually don't have real
recipes for a lot of the things, but do it the way she did...dash of
this, dab of that...
> 3. What was the first period cookbook/food text you ever owned?
>
I think it was an SCA publication, "How to Cook Forsoothly." Shortly
after, I acquired a copy of "In Service to Our Middles" published by the
Midrealm cooks. The first REAL period cookbook were the photocopies
that Duke Cariadoc prepared and sold at Pennsic many years ago. I had a
real problem using this as many of the recipes were unreadable as it was
a third or fourth generation copy and had been reduced so much...four
pages to a page!
Kiri
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