[Sca-cooks] Period Hungarian Recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

In case anyone was wondering, the earliest printed  cookbook from Hungary is Szakatz Mestersegnek Kinyvetkeje or Szakáts Mestersegnek Könyvetskéje. It’s dated 1695. Notaker indicates it has 334 recipes. It was printed originally in the part of Hungary known as Transylvania. A second edition dates from 1698. There’s a Wikipedia entry on it.

There was a modern reprint of it dated 1981. 

Entry here:  https://www.libri.hu/konyv/misztotfalusi_kis_miklos.szakats-mestersegnek-konyvetskeje.html

Johnnae



> On Jun 11, 2017, at 12:48 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
> 
> I just spent two days in Budapest and took the opportunity to ask about cookbooks. Here is the response I got:
> 
> "The first cookbook is a copy (made in 1622) of a hand-written book believed to be a XVI. century work from Transsylvania (which was part of the kingdom of Hungary). The table of contents is a long list of ingredients, like types of meat, fish (24 different kinds of fish!), snails, crayfish, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits, pastry etc. Overall, it contains 689 recipes plus 103 recipes for sick people from a physician as a separate part. "
> 
> ...
> 
> "The title of the book is "Szakáts-tudomány" which means the "Lore of Cooks". The title might have been given later to the book as it was preserved as a handwritten copy and the author is not known. It is guessed from the content and from references to his masters that he served as a cook in the court of the Prince of Transsylvania, either or both of Kristóf (Chirstopher) Báthory (1576-1581) and his son Zsigmond (Sigismund) Báthory (1581-1602 with interruptions). So it was probably written in the later part of the XVI. century.
> For Sigismund Báthory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_B%C3%A1thory
> Accoring to his references to other people's customs, he travelled around and worked in various courts (in Prague in the court the emperor Rudolf II. and in German and Polish lands).
> The book is available as a digital copy of an 1893 edition on the net on this link:
> http://digitalia.lib.pte.hu/?p=2184#toc"
> 
> ...
> 
> "I have just noticed that the book on the below link also contains the first Hungarian recipes in German language from a XV. century book."
> 
> Anyone here read Hungarian?
> 
> -- 
> David Friedman
> www.daviddfriedman.com
> http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
> 
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