[Sca-cooks] true medieval bread recipes

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

I was glad to find that, and grateful to you for trying to reproduce it.  
But it's not a recipe. I suspect there are even more detailed bread trials  
tucked away in regional archives, but only know of one scholar who's even 
gone  around looking at them. These too might provide a basis - even an earlier 
basis  - for reproducing French medieval bread. But they still wouldn't be  
recipes.
 
I should point out that bread recipes in general are rare on the French  
side. Even for nineteenth century bread, the best instructions we have for  
making standard Parisian bread come from an American who was documenting the  
process. The biggest exceptions probably come in the documentation-happy  
eighteenth century, with Malouin and Parmentier.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
.html









In a message dated 9/21/2016 12:36:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:

But we  do have the 15th c. "L'essai du pain blanc" that you pointed me 
at some  time back, and I have made some effort to reconstruct. The end 
of the  Middle Ages or the start of the  Renaissance?