[Sca-cooks] cooking help needed

[Elise Fleming]

McKenna wrote:
 >My recommendation for the absolute best cookbook to give a medievalist 
 >is :
 >A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews

No quibble about the tastiness of the recipes. If you are trying to 
recreate a medieval dish, however, you need to be careful to pick those 
that have a translation of the original recipe.  Not all recipes come 
with an "original" version. In a quick scan of the book, all but one of 
the recipes in the lamb/goat, eggs, and fish chapters, are put together 
using references to those ingredients, not from actual recipes.  Some 
chapters have more original recipes than is indicated here.  For tasty 
dishes, it's a nice book.  For dishes made from actual period recipes, 
it's not so good.

Alys K., being fussy
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Elise Fleming
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