[Sca-cooks] true medieval bread recipes

[Terry Decker]

Jim Chevallier said:
<<< in fact, in the West, there are  virtually no true medieval
bread recipes. >>>

Not quite true, but yes they are very limited.

I think the number is around dozen and a half, depending upon how broadly 
you define “bread”. I think I have about a dozen in the Florilegium. 
Someday, I may group them together in a file only on period bread recipes, 
cutting out a lot of the commentary, which will remain in the other bread 
files.

Stefan


Rather than how one defines bread, it is how one defines medieval and West. 
Actual European bread recipes begin showing up on the cusp between Late 
Medieval and Early Renaissance.  There are a number of Islamic bread recipes 
that are Medieval, but not culturally European, and we have European recipes 
from Greece and Rome that are not Medieval.

Bear