[Sca-cooks] Norse cooking

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I presume Ana is referring to the  Edda:

http://books.google.com/books?id=P580AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitl
e:edda&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjly5y-7KjQAhVJjVQKHd7GBwMQ6AEIswEwFg#v=onepage&
q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=42YJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitl
e:edda&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjly5y-7KjQAhVJjVQKHd7GBwMQ6AEIuQEwFw#v=onepage&
q&f=false

These  were written down in the 13th century, but are generally believed to 
date  farther back.

Then there is this anecdote about Hakon the  Good:

"But on the morrow, when men went to table, the [pagan] bonders  thronged 
[Hakon the Good], bidding him eat horse-flesh, and in no wise the king  
would. Then they bade him drink the broth thereof, but this would he none the  
more. Then would they have him eat of the drippings, but he would not; and it  
went nigh to their falling on him."
Snorri Sturluson
 
So if anyone wants to make horse with the drippings, that's an  option.
 
Beyond that, it's mainly archeology.

jC

Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century  bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
.html



In  a message dated 11/14/2016 7:52:19 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
agora158 at gmail.com writes:
The only sources seem to be Eddorna where food is  cooked and eaten by
heroes and gods.
..
.
Ana

Den 14 nov 2016  12:09 skrev "Chris Canatsey" <canatsey86 at gmail.com>:

> Looking  for a period Norse cooking manuscript, or what evidence we have 
on
>  pre-Christian cooked foods. Any leads?