[Sca-cooks] Concordance of English Recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

Someone who doesn't take Petits Propos Culinaires
asked that I post the review of the Concordance.
Tom Jaine did the review which can be found in the the June issue
of PPC 85. BTW Devra sells the book and will have copies at the War.

Johnnae

It reads:

Constance B. Hieatt and Terry Nutter† with Johnna H. Holloway:
Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth through Fifteenth centuries
(Medieval
and Renaissance Texts and Studies, volume 312): Arizona Center for
Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, paperback: ISBN
9780866983570: 136pp., 2006, £24.00.

I apologize for taking so long to notice the arrival of this important
research
aid in which have been listed all the recipes so far in print from
thirteenth-,
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English texts. The concordance lists
first the original names of the recipes, then the lemmatized (standard)
names, then the printed source of the recipe and its approximate date.
The alphabetical order is determined by the lemmatized or standard
name. As can be imagined, this is already an invaluable tool to unscramble
the jumble of medieval names for the same recipe. The next assistant is a
glossary of recipe titles used as lemmas and a cross-index of variant
titles.
This helps the befuddled. There is an appendix concordance of Renaissance
versions of medieval dishes printed in A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye,
A.W.’s A Booke of Cookrye, Thomas Dawson’s The Good Housewife’s Jewel, and
Gervase Markham’s The English Housewife. This amazing help was originally
conceived and compiled by the late Professor Terry Nutter. Constance
Hieatt and Johnna Holloway completed the work after the untimely death
of Dr Nutter. We should be grateful to the Arizona Center at Tempe for
making this available to us in so clear and handsome a form.
TJ

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