[Sca-cooks] Hot off the presses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Colleen McDonald wrote:

>>> Researching a medieval Recipe: Condoignac - a Quince Paste from  
>>> Paris,
> 1393-1394.
>>
>> I'm curious about something here... is the reference to it being from
> Paris based on the fact that there's a recipe for cotignac in Le
> Menagier, or is there some more compelling reason? >>
>
> This pamphlet is specifically about the research process involved in
> recreating the recipe for Condoignac from Le Mesnagier.

Okay, that's a good reason ;-).

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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