How to Use This Space

This Querki Space is designed to be a repository for the Carolingian Cooks Guild: a place for us to keep all of our recipes, reconstructions, and so on. All members of the Guild, past or present, are welcome to participate.
There are a few key concepts here:
  • A "Recipe" means an original period recipe, from some period cookbook, whether published or manuscript. You should usually start by adding a Recipe. (If you have the original text, just enter it; if you only have a translation, use your best judgement, but please be conscious of copyright.)
  • A "Reconstruction" means a modern redaction created by one or more members of the Guild. This usually includes a reference to the original Recipe.
    Note that many fields in the Reconstruction editor are tags: if you begin to enter a value in "unit" or "ingredient", it will prompt you with existing names that already exist. Please reuse the existing names if appropriate instead of creating new ones willy-nilly -- that way, we keep things consistent and automatically get nice cross-references for ingredients. Using the existing tags for "unit" is especially important -- I have a mad scheme to eventually be able to automatically convert between measurement systems (English, Metric, Arabic), but we'll have to be consistent for that to work.
    And note that Reconstruction allows you to include photos: after creating a Reconstruction page, you can pull it up on your cellphone or tablet and take a picture immediately. (Or you can upload one later.)
  • A "Source" is a book or MS, either period or modern. You can name the primary or secondary Source for a Recipe or Reconstruction before entering it, but please do go back and enter it on the Books and Sources page. Also, please check that page before adding a new Source, so we don't get duplicates. Again, note that the Source fields in Recipe and Reconstruction will prompt you with existing entries after you start typing. If you do add a new Source, please include any common keywords in its Name -- for period Sources especially, you should usually include both the author's name and the name of the book itself.
  • A "Guildmember" is someone who has participated in Cooks Guild. I encourage you to add yourself, and to list which Sources you own, so that folks have some idea who they can ask about what.
This Space is maintained by Justin. Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome -- by the nature of Querki, many enhancements are extremely easy, so if there are particular cross-references you'd like to see, or properties you think we should be tracking, just ask.