[Sca-cooks] Pre-1492 Spanish Cooking

[Tom Vincent]

I don't know if this book has been mentioned to you, but I found it on the poisonpenpress website (http://www.poisonpenpress.com/cookery.html)
   
  Recipes from Banquet dels Quatre Barres (2nd edition) - $12.95
Translated by Thomas & Cynara McDonald (Master Thomas Longshanks & Mistress Aelfwynne Grythesdohter). These recipes are translated from Libre de Sent Sovi, which "represent the oldest surviving collection of recipes from the medieval Catalan cuisine
" A number of copies of this manuscript, designated by their location, survive, and the material is drawn from several of them. Dating is uncertain, but "the introduction to the Valencia manuscript places the date of the original at 1323
. For each recipe in this collection, we have provided a faithful transcription of the original text, a pseudo-literal translation, and our modern redaction." Recipes are divided into three sections: from the Valencia ms, the Barcelona ms, and ‘Other Recipes." Tr pb, spiral bound, 8-1/2x11, 46 pp, 24 recipes. Also includes menus & brief biblio.
  
Duriel
   
  
Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
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Are you doing kosher? Are you serving dairy or meat? I have a lovely lovely 
Passover chocolate/coffee roll which has whipped cream filling...
Devra



Devra Langsam

Thank you so much for you suggestion it sounds divine. No I am not doing kosher. Its just that I am trying to show inheritances in Spanish cooking prior to the discovery of America in the menu for the dinner after my speech. The first course is Catalan, the the second is Hispano Islamic and for dessert I have bunuelos or fritters (Roman) stuffed with orange and lemon peels (an Persian innovation). They have requested I provide a recipe another dessert and I think a Jewish one would be perfect to round off the subject BUT NO CHOCOLATE ALLOWED! Pity as all Hispanos adore it but I use American ingredients as talk ends in 1470. I know many of you are not in agreement with me that I think there is a possibility that I could use coffee but this recipe sounds post 1470??? 
Cheers,
Suey



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