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Oorijzer or ear irons are like the recent love of the 16th century costuming community. AFAIK the earliest find is dated to 1580, but they don't show up in the written record as anythign resembling oorijzer at all until 1674. An earlier reference is given in 1636, but the word oorijzer isn't even used. "Een zilveren mutsband, anders genaamd ijserken." And that's it.

Here's the reference. Page 200. In Dutch. SO HELPFUL. Downloaded the PDF though.

I was asked to be one of the chief researchers for PPFN Germany. Doing it! Right now the dates I have to work with are 1525-1575. It will be narrowed down as the date of the event draws near. I'm not a cook (I'm an eater) but it seems that only Sabina Welserin (1553) is in that time frame. Rumpolt (1581) is just out of that frame. Anna Wecker (1597) is super out of that time frame.  Every other German source I know of is much earlier (guoter Spise is 1350) and Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard is 15th century. Rheinfraenkisches Kochbuch is 1445, Master Hannsen's is 1460. Do you cooks know of something I'm missing?

So I'm going to use Sabina Welserin's cookbook as my starting point. There's not so much I'll do with translation (but I could if I wanted I guess). I have the Hugo Stopp version, but a brief reading of the forward doesn't provide much information. That tricky Sabina didn't provide any context for her cookbook.

I did find something possibly useful on Google Books, The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literature which has a chapter titled: Sixteenth Century Cookbooks, Artes Literature, and Female Voices: Anna Weckerin (Keller) and Sabina Welser. But of course I can't read all of it. The UNR library has the book and I will attempt to go to the library and copy it.

I also found a Hans Sachs poem from 1540 which says this about dining:
( Table Manners and a large image )

To be completed after I finish everything else I was supposed to finish last year

1) Beltane - Rus coat, undertunic, kerchief.
2) June crown - 3.5 ounce linen tunics
3) October crown - housebook dress
4) Twelfth Night (if I won't be in Vietnam) - new 1520s germans

The very bad news: The UNCE identified it positively as a bed bug. For real. 

The good news:
The mattress is not infested as per our inspection. We dropped ca$h on mattress and box spring covers. This should be taken care of. Also, neither of us has had any reactions to bites. 

The ok news:
The landlord will take care of it via spray. Not sure how I feel about this because 1) kittens and 2) the great new york google collective seems to think heat treatment is the way to go. The manager was all like "we've never had a problem with this before" and I was all "we didn't have it at either of our parent's places and they could have come from anywhere" and he was all "well I guess we did have it in two other units but far away from yours" On the way out I told Roger people probably don't say anything, for any number of reasons. 

The bed bugs we found were on the wall near the kitten tree in the living room, and the first one I found was two weeks ago when Roger was in Atlanta. I had stripped the bed to launder things and upon making the bed, found a little mofo on the comforter. Didn't id it as a bed bug, because, why not? Flushed it without thinking. 

LOL strep throat again! 

AWESOME. 

Everyone who's expecting shipped items - we received an evacuation warning so uh, I'll ship that stuff out assuming my home doesn't burn down. 

 Kinder Milch-Schnitte - No. 
Kinder Pinguine - Yes.
Balisto Korn-Mix - yes. 
Kinder Country - meh
Kinder Ei - it's ok. 

 I have 5 vacation days left, so I better damn well use them in combinations with my weekends. Where do people propose I go in May? I'm thinking somewhere safe for a woman to travel alone too so Turkey is probably out. CURSE MY LACK OF A COMPANION. 

I'm basically done with Germany and Austria. I've been to Denmark. I've been to Brussels. So where should I go before my vacation is up? I can only afford about 1 trip a month, since I'm funneling so much into savings. 

May - ???
June - Paris. 
July - Amsterdam