[Sca-cooks] Honey butter was lunch ideas- feedback

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Mon Mar 30 06:26:08 PDT 2009


Doc's Ouverture  de Cuisine translation can be  found at
http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/ouverture.html

The butter sculpture descriptions can be found at the end of
the translation, right before you get to the index.

Johnnae


Johnna Holloway wrote:snipped
> I had come across the butter sculpture references in Doc's
> translation of /"Ouverture de Cuisine" /and /// /filed them away for a 
> rainy research day.
> (One never  knows when one  will need something to write about.)
> The Ouverture butter sculpture references are of course quite
> appropriate. The passage describes
> "THE BANQUET OF THE ENTRANCE of Monsieur Robert de Berges Count of 
> Walhain, Esquire & Prince of Liege, made in the palace in Liege, the 
> year 1557 in the month of December..."
> It's quite a description.The book was
> actually written in the mid 1580's, according to Scully. It was 
> finally published in 1604.
> Doc's translation really should have opened the door to more work on 
> it and its recipes
> but it's not been the subject of much comment or work.
>




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