[Sca-cooks] Orders of meals: Humbert II (14th c)

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Following up on our Flandrin thread....
 
Menus for this period, beyond the Menagier and some very fancy ones added  
after the fact to the Viandier, are rare. So some might find it useful to 
see  what the Dauphin Humbert II had served in his household:
 
Recherches sur la législation criminelle et la législation de police, en  
...
 By  Jacques Berriat-Saint-Prix
"Description  des repas de Humbert II" p57
http://books.google.com/books?ei=oK1uUoTfKYvwiQKkz4HYDQ&dq=humbert+dauphin+l
ard&jtp=57&id=-4F23ceEM_0C#v=onepage&q=humbert%20dauphin%20lard&f=false
 
Roughly, most meals for himself and anyone noble were of a soup, an  
entremets and a roast, with cheese or fruit for dessert. There are variants -  
sometimes, for instance, pate' replaced the soup.
 
Interesting that one of the few dishes to be reserved for Humbert himself  
was... tripe "well purified and cooked in water". Yummy.
 
The servants (p 66) got basically one dish and a soup or vegetables,  
sometimes even less.
 
This data is no more definitive than that examined by Flandrin, but it does 
 slightly expand the examples available, and has the advantage of showing 
daily  fare as opposed to major feasts.
 
Jim  Chevallier

Comparing early and late medieval food in France
http://www.chezjim.com/food/pre-v/comparisons.html