[Sca-cooks] Period Cookbooks and Period to modern glosseries

[Jane Tremaine]

I have been serfing your flori thing and I found it rather frustrating 
looking for receipes from the late 12th century, english.

Jana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:56 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Period Cookbooks and Period to modern glosseries


> J. Wills? asked:
>
> <<< I was wondering were would be a good sources for period cookbooks
> and Period to modern glosseries.? I very much want to get my medieval
> (period) culinary show going as it were. >>>
>
> I would recommend taking a look at the files in the FOOD-BOOKS
> section of the Florilegium, particularly this file:
> cookbooks-bib     (44K)  2/15/04    Cookbook bib. by Mistress Jaelle
> of Armida.
>
> For background info, it might also be a good idea to read some of the
> books about medieval food, which aren't in themselves cookbooks such
> as those reviewed in this file:
> books-food-msg   (172K)  2/21/08    Books about food. Not cookbooks.
>
> These days there are an increasing about of period cookbooks
> available online, and this file lists many of these:
> online-ckbks-msg  (68K)  4/12/08    Online versions of period cookbooks.
>
> However, these are mostly just translations of these early cookbooks
> and if you want versions of these recipes translated into modern
> recipe format, you'll have to look elsewhere.
> online-ckbks-msg  (68K)  4/12/08    Online versions of period cookbooks.
>
> And lastly, in the FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS section there are eight copies of
> translations of cooking manuscripts from within and just after our
> time period.
>
> Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
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