Epic Cooking: The Last Old Polish Feast: Difference between revisions
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So by now we know where verse 145, quoted in the excerpt above, is coming from. What about the next two? It seems that the idea for these "tragacanths, brignoles and pineoli" came not from any specifc recipes, but from the "General Memorandum for the Preparation of a Banquet" that Czerniecki included at the beginning of his book. It was a list of thing and people that you should have at your disposal before you start preparing a big lordly feast. It opens with a list of various kinds of meat, followed by sundry dairy products, cereals, fruits, vegetables, spices, preserves, different kinds of fish and sugar, as well as kitchen utensils and jobs (including, for example, floor-sweepers equipped with brooms, shovels and wheelbarrows, because, you know, if there's going to be plenty of food, then there's also going to be plenty of leavings). As for the spices, the list covered | So by now we know where verse 145, quoted in the excerpt above, is coming from. What about the next two? It seems that the idea for these "tragacanths, brignoles and pineoli" came not from any specifc recipes, but from the "General Memorandum for the Preparation of a Banquet" that Czerniecki included at the beginning of his book. It was a list of thing and people that you should have at your disposal before you start preparing a big lordly feast. It opens with a list of various kinds of meat, followed by sundry dairy products, cereals, fruits, vegetables, spices, preserves, different kinds of fish and sugar, as well as kitchen utensils and jobs (including, for example, floor-sweepers equipped with brooms, shovels and wheelbarrows, because, you know, if there's going to be plenty of food, then there's also going to be plenty of leavings). As for the spices, the list covered, among others, the following: | ||
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There's not much context here, so it's possible Mickiewicz couldn't even guess what some of these items mean. But their meaning, of course, is what we're most interested in. So, without further ado, let's break them down one by one: | |||
[[File:Korzenie.jpg|thumb|upright|"''Dalej inne potrawy, a któż je wypowie!''"<ref>A. Mickiewicz, ''op. cit.'', Book XII, verse 143</ref><br>Fragment " | [[File:Korzenie.jpg|thumb|upright|"''Dalej inne potrawy, a któż je wypowie!''"<ref>A. Mickiewicz, ''op. cit.'', Book XII, verse 143</ref><br>Fragment of "General Memorandum for the Preparation of a Banquet" from ''Compendium Ferculorum'']] | ||
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