[Sca-cooks] Zinziber: Sauces from Poitou

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Well, it is, as the title says, sauces. So maybe not that much to work  
with. 
 
This was originally touted as "the oldest European cookbook", which was  
strange, since Faith Wallis had actually published excerpts from Anthimus, 
whose  text is (like this one) a medical one, but much older and with greater 
variety.  That claim has disappeared in the final product.
 
 
Arnaldus' recipes are somewhat closer to your persona's time than the usual 
 fare (his dates are  c. 1240–1311).  I've actually  teased out a few on my 
blog:
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-doctors-blancmange-medieval-recipes
.html


But that was before learning that the common edition of his  collected 
works is highly corrupt, and some of these are properly credited to  other 
writers. Haven't had a chance to backtrack and check against this list to  see 
which:
 
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/en/apocrifs
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
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In a message dated 6/18/2016 6:54:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
stefanlirous at gmail.com writes:

Has  anyone seen this book or know anything about it? Okay, Apparently it 
is  new.