far left is an ornamented sugar cone (sugar came and was transported like this, tho I've neever seen one decorated! cool!) next is a barrel with some sticks and some handled bowls/pipkins, illustrating honey (and how its handled/measured?, perhaps?)
next are two molds...a round one and a oblong one (the oblong one looks like little gingerbread men. how cool is that??!!) along with a wedge of something that came out of the mold
the pipkin is next to a small mortar and pestle, grinding the aolmonds that are scattered on the countertop ("mitt nuttzen? is maybe with nuts?)
next you see a cheese draining in a woven sieve over a bucket
then you have two tortas/cakes/tarts/flat thingies :). do the names there match up with any of the names in your cookbooks?
fun stuff! and the drawing style? spot on the same as the ones in scappi, which are from a similar time frame :). lots of the english and italian sources of the time liked to illustrate their cookbooks with wee pictures of food and kitchen gadgets.
There are quite a few more of these illo's. I think I'll post them because the subtitles make them quite useful to me - sort of like a kid's book!
I haven't been able to link up the names to the right with any German recipes. I checked Platina last night - no go there either. I'll try Scappi later today. I found the other two possible names from google fu. They could be wrong - but Chabis is a French goat cheese - so that at least matches the cheese making picture. The Turkish desert, if it is indeed that, leads me to think that they are looking at Italian food, but it could be French. The names ending with chi are Italianate, but it could be an alternate spelling for the soft che French ending. I don't have a period French cookbook in hand - I'll check the on-line ones for starters.
I hope to learn more about the author of this book from the facsimile I have on order. Since the book is really health related, maybe he is a doctor that studied in Italy or France.
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next is a barrel with some sticks and some handled bowls/pipkins, illustrating honey (and how its handled/measured?, perhaps?)
next are two molds...a round one and a oblong one (the oblong one looks like little gingerbread men. how cool is that??!!) along with a wedge of something that came out of the mold
the pipkin is next to a small mortar and pestle, grinding the aolmonds that are scattered on the countertop ("mitt nuttzen? is maybe with nuts?)
next you see a cheese draining in a woven sieve over a bucket
then you have two tortas/cakes/tarts/flat thingies :). do the names there match up with any of the names in your cookbooks?
fun stuff! and the drawing style? spot on the same as the ones in scappi, which are from a similar time frame :). lots of the english and italian sources of the time liked to illustrate their cookbooks with wee pictures of food and kitchen gadgets.
fun stuff!
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I haven't been able to link up the names to the right with any German recipes. I checked Platina last night - no go there either. I'll try Scappi later today. I found the other two possible names from google fu. They could be wrong - but Chabis is a French goat cheese - so that at least matches the cheese making picture. The Turkish desert, if it is indeed that, leads me to think that they are looking at Italian food, but it could be French. The names ending with chi are Italianate, but it could be an alternate spelling for the soft che French ending. I don't have a period French cookbook in hand - I'll check the on-line ones for starters.
I hope to learn more about the author of this book from the facsimile I have on order. Since the book is really health related, maybe he is a doctor that studied in Italy or France.
I am having too much fun!
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