[Sca-cooks] New 'invention' of medieval food?
Gretchen Beck
cmupythia at cmu.edu
Fri Aug 19 07:15:20 PDT 2011
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From: sca-cooks-bounces+grm+=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org [sca-cooks-bounces+grm+=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] on behalf of Craig Daniel [teucer at pobox.com]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 8:23 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] New 'invention' of medieval food?
Actually, I have seen references to Middle English uses of the word
"alegar" (albeit only in secondary sources about brewing; haven't
chased down any references) - but I'm quite certain it was more
commonly referred to as a vinegar, even back then.
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THe Middle English Dictionary has these quotes (s.v aligre)
(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016) 56: Vynegur, aysell, oþer alegur. (c1422) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12 202: j parvum barel pro alegre. a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279) 28: With Venegre, or eysel, or with Alegere. c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136) 24/25: Temper it with a lyttell aleg[er] of gude alle.
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