Check out this article about cookies from 1040 to the present, icludes recipes.

If you can wait a bit, Julie Powell (of Julie & Julia) has a new book coming out...

called "Cleaved". She went on a world tour and is writing about international cooking idiosyncrasies.

Oh wait...hold on...Never Mind (spoken in a Rosanne Rosannadannaanananana (help! I can't stop!) nasal voice.) I'm confusing that with an article she wrote for Archaeology Magazine where her husband worked. It discussed how food was prepared around 1000 AD. Like Mongolians on the Russian steppes who would bury their meat underneath their saddles to "tenderize" it. Then there were all those foods that were prepared with blood.

Ya...now that I think about it...there probably won't be many cookie recipes there either.

http://www.archaeology.org/0411/abstracts/food.html

 
They are printing it as a book! Saw Ruth Reichl speak a couple weeks ago. The cookie book will be

out this fall. smileys/smile.gif

 
Heheh, I like the error message ye get when ye try to connect to the link...

"Alas, but it would seem that yon web link has gone amiss.

Mayhap one of these is the page you seek:

http://www.medievalcookery.com/index.html
http://www.medievalcookery.com/dictionary/index.html
http://www.medievalcookery.com/index.html
http://www.medievalcookery.com/mewd/2007/aug/index.html
http://www.medievalcookery.com/mewd/2007/dec/index.html
"

Sandalwood dust does seem like an odd ingedient for gingerbread cookies though, doesn't it.

 
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