[Sca-cooks] Period Hungarian Recipes

[Terry Decker]

The book you are referencing is Bela Radvanszky's Old Hungarian Cookbooks. 
It contains three manuscripts.  The first is a 15th Century manuscript 
currently in the Munich Library containing (if my information is correct) 
notes on Czech and Hungarian and four recipes.  The second is the 
"Szakáts-tudomány"  The Lore (or Science) of Cooking containing 689 recipes 
by an unnamed non-Saxon Transylvanian Calvinist probably (inferred by others 
from some internal references) chef and 109 dietary recipes by the physician 
Janos Wecker.  Looking at Radvanszky's Table of Contents  the dietary 
recipes are attributed to Janos Jakob Wecker; or Johann Jakob Wecker, the 
husband of Anna Weckerin.  I'm uncertain as to which of Wecker's works are 
the basis for these, but this section would not have been assembled before 
1557 and possibly not until 1588 after the publication of his posthumous 
cookbook.  The third manuscript is Feasts Given by Count Szaniszlo Thurzo 
in January 1603.

Bear

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"


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