14th century cook's playdate at Mists Fall Coronet

[ppfuf]

I've been talking to LearnTeach, and we'd like to host a 14th century cook's cook-over-fire playdate at Mists Fall Coronet (Ed Levine Park, October 16th-18th). This will be in conjunction with the 14th Century Salon suggested by the fabulous CallistoToni.

So what's cooking in the 14th Century? Just on the web there's English translations of these four cookbooks:
*) The Forme of Cury, English 1390: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/
*) Le Viandier de Taillevent, French http://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/viandier/viandier1.html
*) Ein Buch von guter Spise, German http://cs-people.bu.edu/akatlas/Buch/recipes.html
*) Le Ménagier de Paris, French (cooking sections only) http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html#Beginning

Right now we haven't decided on which recipes we're going to try, so if you have a favorite please let me know.

If you don't like cooking, feel free to bring a story from Chaucer or the Decameron to read to the cooks.

regards,
Crystal of the Westermark

ps/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century

ETA: I was focused on web sources and neglected to mention Book of Sent Sovi: Medieval Recipes from Catalonia avaliable from http://www.poisonpenpress.com/cookery.html.

Comments

[evil-macaroni.livejournal.com]

I'd love to cook with you guys. I'll let the husband take over EM Jr watching duties. :-)

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

heh. Given that Mr.EM keeps joking about how we can cook EMJr (piglet) I think perhaps you should consider a trusty friend to watch him.

[evil-macaroni.livejournal.com]

Oh, *that's* easy - I'll just tell him that the meal we're preparing is on a fast day so no pork allowed. Problem solved! :-)
ETA: obviously I'll keep an eagle eye on the lad during the bacon explosion feast. *grin*