[Sca-cooks] cooking help needed
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Sun Nov 27 12:44:30 PST 2011
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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