[Sca-cooks] Drachenwald Camp Cookery Book now online

[Volker Bach]

>Interesting range of sources, including some I'm not familiar with, such as
>Vinidarius

IIRC the excerpta Vinidarii are in the Grainger translation of Apicius. I have the inexpensive Reclam edition with a (German) translation, which is very much worth  getting (Maier, Robert (trsl): Marcus Gavius Apicius de re coquinaria. Über die Kochkunst. Philipp Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-15-008710-4). The edition follows the Teubner text and meets academic standards, the translation is close to the original, controversial or unclear points are annotated and the author knows whereof he speaks. Best of all, the retail price is EUR 6.60. As to Vinidarius, the preface declares the text excerpts from Apicius, but the recipes themselves are not from the version that survives. As to dating the text, I've found anything from fifth century Italian to eighth century Lombard, but am happy to go with the majority that puts it in the fifth century Roman Mediterranean. 
 
>The worked out Itriya recipe leaves out the mastic, which I would expect to change the taste. And it's worth warning anyone who is following the original that >mastic needs to be used in very small quantities.

That was the main reason for leaving it out - it's hard to get, and difficult to use. A lot of the redactions are heavily simplified.
 
Giano

At Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:45:03 +0100 (BST), Volker Bach wrote:
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>Salvete Omnes!
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>It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Kingdom of Drachenwald's Camp Cookery Book "Plain Fare"is now online. Admittedly, I'm sending it to this list mostly in order for word to spread, since the target audience is people who do not know a lot about period cooking. Basically, it is a short collection of documentably period recipes - each one in English translation with a redaction - that are suitable for preparing in camp even by moderately skilled BBQ cooks. The idea is for this to be handed to newcomers to the culinary scene so that their camps may be fed on other things than grilled sausages and canned ravioli.
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>The file (pdf format) is onm the Kingdom of Drachenwald's A&S page
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>http://www.drachenwald.sca.org/content/arts-and-sciences
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>and can be downloaded here
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>http://www.drachenwald.sca.org/sites/default/files/PLAIN%20FARE.pdf
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>It is 86 pages, designed to be printed side by side on A4 or letter-size pages and bound into a handy booklet. Distribution in any form is encouraged. This is also part of our ongoing PR programme known under the catchy title "Hey, Drachenwald Exists!"
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>This concludes our message and we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming. 
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>YIS
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>Giano
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