[Sca-cooks] cooking help needed

[Susan Lin]

I love "A Drizzle of Honey".  I have been admonished on this list before
about considering the recipes period.

Shoshanah

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 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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