[Sca-cooks] Need Advice on cookbooks

[Stefan li Rous]

Morvran asked:
<<< Okay I am doing a sauce project and I need to find cookbooks and  
I am not having any luck.? I just might not know where to look, heck  
it makes me feel stupid not being able to find these on my own, but  
when I have a resouce as good and powerful as you all, why go it alone.

I need the following Countrys in period of 600-1600.? Can you hellp  
me?????? >>>

For each of these, you might want to look through the FOOD-BY-REGION  
section of the Florilegium, if you haven't, and see what is  
recommended there.

I tend to file the recipes in the Florilegium by type of food rather  
than area though, so you might want to browse through these files in  
the FOOD-CONDIMENTS section:
camelne-sauce-msg (26K)  8/22/04    Sauces w. cinnamon as a major  
component.
garum-msg         (78K)  2/24/08    Roman fish sauces made from  
fermented fish.
                                        Also includes comments on  
liquamen.
murri-msg         (44K)  2/14/08    Rotted barley paste condiment of  
Arabia.
Mustard-art        (5K)  9/14/00    "Mustard" by Ld. Daniel le Vascon  
du Navarre
Mustard-Making-art (36K) 12/ 7/03    "Making Medieval-Style Mustards"  
by Pani
                                        Jadwiga Zajaczkowa.
mustard-msg      (154K)  2/13/08    Mustard seed in period. sauces.  
recipes.
sauces-msg       (172K)  2/14/08    Period sauces. Sauce recipes.
spreads-msg       (18K)  4/ 2/08    Period spreads for bread. recipes.

Here are some others that come to mind, in the FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS section:
<<<Irish
Celtic
German >>>

Eberhard-art      (91K)  6/29/05    A 15th century German recipe  
collection
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.
Inntal-art        (32K)  6/29/05    An early 16th century recipe  
collection from
                                        Bavaria translated by Giano  
Balestriere.
Konigsberg-art    (28K)  6/29/05    A 15th century cookbook from East  
Prussia
                                        translated by Giano Balestriere.

<<< Danish
Polish
Greek
Spanish >>>

Fadalat-art       (58K) 12/ 4/07    "Culinary Abundance With Recipes  
with
                                        Medieval Variations".  
Translation
                                        by Susan Lord-Williams.
Guisados1-art    (220K)  5/28/01    A translation of Ruperto de Nola's
                                        1529 "Libre del Coch", part 1  
of 2
                                        by Lady Brighid ni Chiarain.
Guisados2-art    (116K)  5/28/01    "Libre del Coch". part 2 of 2.
                                        Lenten recipes.

<<< Middle eastern
Hungary >>>

I don't know. How close is Romanian cooking to Hungarian?

Romanian-ckbk-art (112K)  1/25/04    "A Translation of a 17th Century  
Romanian
                                        Cookbook" by Lord Petru cel  
paros Voda.

<<< There is my list the others I am usuing I already have.>>>

Then some of these may be duplicates, but I don't know. Is this for a  
specific project? Or are you trying to build up your personal  
collection of medieval cookbooks?

If the latter, I would recommend looking through the recommendations  
and reviews in the FOOD-BOOKS section. The following is a good,  
annotated bibliography:

cookbooks-bib     (44K)  2/15/04    Cookbook bib. by Mistress Jaelle  
of Armida.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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