[Sca-cooks] Searching for Period Italian Leek Soup recipe

[emilio szabo]

Consider this:

"Incipit registrum coquine in quadragesima, et primo de porro.
Sic fac ministrum de porro. Recipe porrum album, et lava eum bene, et fac eum 
modicum bulire; et tunc trita eum cum cultello, et tempera eum cum 
lacte amigdalarum, et mitte intus oleum olive, et panem grattatum, 
cum zapharano. Et erit bonum pro canonicis et vicariis ecclesiasticis."
(Giovanni Bockenheym, La cucina di Papa Martino V, 1995).

Johannes Bockenheym/Giovanni Bockenheym served as a cook to pope Martin V. His "registrum coquine" is written in Latin and includes both aspects of Italian and international cuisine of 15th century Rome.

I am not sure if ministrum/minestra is a soup or rather something like a thick broth or something else.

Emilio




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