[Sca-cooks] New Hieatt Work
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Wed Nov 30 04:49:25 PST 2011
The announced new volume
Cocatrice and Lampray Hay: Late Fifteenth-Century Recipes from Corpus
Christi College Oxford by Constance Hieatt will be out later in the
spring. It's not going to press until January 2012.
It will be the first publication of the "Corpus Christi College,
Oxford MS F 291, which contains 99 recipes written in English (showing
signs, the experts claim, of East Anglian provenance). The recipes are
remarkable for their close attention to detail and much greater
information about quantities of ingredients than similar collections
from earlier centuries. They include dishes such as the famous
cocatrice or basilisk, which is a combination of pig and chicken
constructed as a fabulous beast, to the more mundane, but more
cookable, blancmanges, stewed oysters, croustades, pies, venison, beef
and chicken dishes. The edition gives the original text, a translation
into modern English, a full commentary, and notes for the modern cook
who wishes to interpret each dish in his or her own kitchen."
Johnnae
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