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The other big advantage is that it almost entirely relies on local ingredients, so it is very cheap to cook, as long as you reduce the amounts suggested for butter and eggs.
I fear there won't be an English version of it though.
https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Davidis&lg_topic=libgen&ope...
Compiled and adapted for the United States, according to the Thirty-fifth German Original, with Weights and Measures in American equivalents, and an Appendix of Selected Recipes of Peculiar American Dishes Embracing also a Topically arranged List of over 550 Characteristic German Dishes in German, with English translation, giving page where these Recipes can be found ; also a Vocabulary of Culinary Terms in both languages, with full table.
> After 26 years, Chef Staib has decided to not renew his contract with Independence National Historical Park as operator of City Tavern. He closed the doors to the patrons effective November 2, 2020 allowing time wrap up affairs before turning the building back over to the Park Service.
"Useless cookbook! My local grocer has never heard of Silphium"
Might give cooking a few of these a try
Here’s an example of Old English. https://www.omniglot.com/images/langsamples/smp_oldenglish.g...
[1] https://rarecooking.com/2021/12/14/john-lockes-recipe-for-pa...
The word pasta and etymological relatives are also the words for all dough, sausage (pâté), porridge, pastry (pâtisserie), pesto, etc etc in different european cuisines and that's just what I know off the top of my head, in use in the last few decades. If you expand it out a couple hundred years who fucking knows what will have been known by that word or its variants.
I'm not even sure how long that usage dates in english either. Even as recently as mid-late 20th century american cookbooks referred to all noodles as macaroni and used that word generically the same way we use pasta now.
- "From Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”), whose frequentative also gave Italian pestare (“to pound”)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta
Evidently it is a young word relatively speaking.
Earliest use as an English word: 1830:
J. P. Cobbett Jrnl. Tour Italy 214 Maccaroni, like vermicelli, is only one of the forms into which the Italians make what they call ‘pasta’ or paste. It requires a particular sort of wheat, a brittle, flinty grain, to make this pasta.
Earliest mention in English (i.e., as an Italian word): 1820:
W. A. Cadell Journey Carniola, Italy & France II. 152 The Italians prefer that [sc. Macaroni] which is fresh made, and made at home, and called pasta di casa, household paste.*
Even if the correct date is 1830 or even 1820, it is a distinction without difference. It misses the middle ages by more than a hundred years.
(when you trigger the search or view the Works table, the links are in last column)
But it does help if you know the language... :D
*looks for recipes*
“No not like that”