[Sca-cooks] "Joke" Food
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Tue Jun 12 03:43:59 PDT 2012
(Too many recipients on first try. Here is the post again.)
Greetings! Ivan Day, noted British food historian, has put a new post
on his blog site (http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/) which
addresses a variety of "joke" food from the 1400s on. Each item comes
with a wonderful photo and details about the food being recreated. The
first item is from "Liber cure cocorum" (1420 or so) and is a dish of
bacon and eggs made from jelly - although he uses a recipe from 1769.
Other "joke food" photos include marzipan fruit, sugar paste flowers, a
disappearing table (not food but food-related), and a variety of photos
of texts and engravings. There's enough in this blog to keep some
enterprising subtlety maker challenged for years!
Alys K.
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Elise Fleming
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