There are recipes that survive and evolve over the years – blankmange goes from being a chicken/rice version of oatmeal, to a sauce for chicken, to, over the centuries, an almond custard; recipes that become extinct as the forces of superior techniques and fashion weed them out of cook books like eel pie, lamprey turnovers, [...]
Written sometime in the middle of the 14th century, The Book of Sent Soví is one of the earliest records of Catalan cuisine.
Bird Turnovers:
Si vols fer panades d’aucells o de perdius ab ceba, pren una ceba, la pus gran que tròpies, e mit-la dins, segons que vijares te serà; e mit-hi los ocells [...]
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