[Sca-cooks] 12th Century English recipes

[Stefan li Rous]

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

That's because there are no known 12th century English recipes. I'm  
sure others will correct me, if that is wrong.:-)

The earliest European (other than Andalusian Spain, as Master  
Cariadoc has pointed out) is this cookbook, which can be found in the  
FOOD-BOOKS section of the Florilegium:
Harpstrang-cb-msg (37K)  1/31/05    The Harpestraeng cookbook. The  
oldest
                                        cookbook in the Western  
medieval Europe.

And it isn't English, either. Although the copies have been found in  
northern Europe, it is most likely from southern Europe.

There are these two files in the FOOD-BY-REGION section, but the  
recipes in them are mostly conjectures arrived at from studying  
archeological sites and non-recipe records and writings.
fd-Anglo-Saxn-msg (28K)  6/25/06    Food of Anglo-Saxon England.  
References.
fd-Normans-msg    (18K)  2/24/08    Food of the Normans. References.

If you are specifically looking for information on the 12th century,  
you might want to check out THE-12TH-CENTURY section which is mostly  
bibliographies put together by 'Lainie on the 12th century.

For the future, there is also a search engine on the top page of the  
site that can sometimes help you find things, especially topics which  
haven't been big enough to warrant their own file.

Stefan
12th Century Anglo-Norman
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