[Sca-cooks] Zinziber?

[Gretchen R Beck]

Yup, there it is. Here's the abstract if anyone is interested

Abstract:
This article presents a collection of culinary recipes from a manuscript produced in England from the later twelfth century. The suite of ten recipes for ‘Poitou sauces’ or ‘Poitou relishes’ (salsamenta pictavensium—literally ‘of the Poitevins’) to garnish various kinds of meat, fish and fowl are introduced and analysed, with an appended edition and translation. These are, to date, the oldest extant medieval recipes for such sauces, and in their role as gastronomic enhancements, the earliest surviving medieval culinary recipes. The historical and cultural contexts for the recipes at Durham Cathedral Priory are explored: the nature of the community for whom the recipes were written, its choices of library acquisition, its relationships with the bishopric, and attitudes within the community towards food and medicine in a monastic setting. The Poitevin designation of the sauces is also considered. Above all the article investigates the question of the relationship between gastronomy and medicine in the twelfth century, and seeks to demonstrate that any distinction between medical and culinary recipes suggests a false dichotomy, particularly in the case of salsamenta. The authors argue against the position that medieval cuisine is, in its origins and essence, applied dietetics, and suggest that in the twelfth century salsamenta belonged in the first instance to gastronomy, but were in the process of being appropriated as medicines by the authors of the new literature of therapeutics.


toodles, margaret
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I'm told the actual recipes (only 2 pages of them) are  in:

Giles E. M. Gasper and Faith Wallis, “Salsamenta pictavensium:  Gastronomy
and Medicine in Twelfth-Century England,” English Historical  Review 131,
No. 553 (2016), 1353–85.

For anyone who has the  appropriate access.

Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)

The  pain au chocolat and the chocolatine: a truthier version
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-pain-au-chocolat-and-chocolatine.h
tml_
(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century.html)









In a message dated 11/25/2017 6:21:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
johnnae at mac.com writes:

I wrote  and asked. The bad news from the publisher is that publication has
been  abandoned. One of the authors has cancer and was unable to proceed
with the  volume.

Johnna


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