[Sca-cooks] Period German menus

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Feb 7 20:24:27 PST 2007


On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Cat . wrote:

> Im on digest, but had this forwarded to me (thanks
> Johnnae)
>
> If you have Rumpolt you have A TON of menus.  The
> entire first section, pages 11 through 42, has menus.
>
>
> I webbed a very rough on the fly translation of his
> four banquets for kings at:
> http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_ASkings1.htm
>
> I used selections from that to base a feast on in
> 2000, that feast with recipes is also webbed.  Rumpolt
> also hasamong several others: banquets for Emperors,
> banquets for lords, even 'banquets for farmers' though
> these last I belive should be taken with a large grain
> of salt.

Maybe not. For example, isn't a Hungarian boyar basically a rancher  
of sorts? Yes, he's holding a lot of land, is a de facto thegn, and  
is a farmer who raises cows. Problem???

Adamantius




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