[Sca-cooks] Hildegard's recipes wasRe: American Substitution and Translation

[Terry Decker]

If this is From St. Hildegard's Kitchen, then the recipes are modern 
(potatoes, tomatoes, choclate, etc.).

It is worth noting that the term "kvass" shows up in Russian around mid-16th 
Century according to one source.  However, the oldest recipe (sort of) for 
beer made from barley bread is Sumerian, about 3500 years old (IIRC).

Bear


>I am unsure of the date on the actual recipe but it is in a cookbook 
>collection that has been modeled on the writings of Hildegard of Bingen. 
>The date given is 1098-1179. Her biography states that she wrote on the 
>connection between nature, folk remedies and the use of food to balance the 
>humors.
> Aelina
>
>
> Do we actually have period recipes for it, or are you reconstructing a
> plausible guess at how they did it in period based on how it was done 
> later?
>
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc