[Sca-cooks] Another question on peas

[wheezul at canby.com]

It's available on line here:


Wecker, Anna:
Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch Von allerhand Speisen, an Gemüsen, Obs, Fleisch,
Geflügel, Wildpret, Fischen und Gebachens Nit allein vor Gesunde: sondern
auch und fürnemlich vor Krancke, in allerley Kranckheiten und Gebrästen
... / Mit fleiß beschrieben durch F. Anna Weckerin, Weyland Herrn D.
Johann Jacob Weckers, des berümbten Medici, seligen, nachgelassene Wittib.
- Amberg, 1598
Signatur: Res/Oecon. 2174 b
[2008-10-15]
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00028737-3

> A cookbook I've been seeking for a long time.  If you have a complete
> copy,
> perhaps you could solve a problem I have when you have time.
>
> About 20 years ago, I obtained a copy of Esther B. Aresty's The Delectable
> Past.  Aresty commnets that Wecker's work contains a recipe that "bore a
> close resembelance to Rösti".  She then procedes to provide a modern
> recipe
> for Rösti.  Rösti is a dish using Solanum tuberosum, the white or Irish
> potato, which, at the time Wecker was published, was just entering
> Northern
> Europe as botanical specimens.  If Wecker has a recipe for potatoes
> (Kartoffel, Taratouphli, Erdapfel, etc.) then it suggests that potatoes
> may
> have been more widespread than the records suggest.  If you come across
> such
> a recipe, please post it to the list, I and some others would certainly be
> interested in seeing it.
>
> Many thanks.
>

It's available on line here:

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?recherche=ja&projekt=1174066449&autor=Wecker%2C+Anna&titel=&sortjahr=

The details:

Wecker, Anna:
Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch Von allerhand Speisen, an Gemüsen, Obs, Fleisch,
Geflügel, Wildpret, Fischen und Gebachens Nit allein vor Gesunde: sondern
auch und fürnemlich vor Krancke, in allerley Kranckheiten und Gebrästen
... / Mit fleiß beschrieben durch F. Anna Weckerin, Weyland Herrn D.
Johann Jacob Weckers, des berümbten Medici, seligen, nachgelassene Wittib.
- Amberg, 1598
Signatur: Res/Oecon. 2174 b
[2008-10-15]
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00028737-3

For those not familiar with this site needing instructions:  Search for
Wecker, Anna as author if the info above doesn't come up.  Click on the
URN in the description and there will be a pdf download link in the upper
right.  When the menu comes up click 'ja' and then the Weiter button.

There are other cookbooks and texts there.  The Bavarian State Library is
a treasure trove.

I'll look and see what I can find for the similarity to Rösti if you don't
get there first.  Of course I was looking for an elusive potato recipe
(what good German wouldn't??) but there are parts I have only just briefly
scanned so far.

Katrine