Moving on with Scappi’s Opera, here is my translation of Book IV, the Month of May. We continue to enjoy the springtime delights of lamb, kid, and every kind of poulry. There’s one long menu with no meat but veal, prepared in more than a dozen ways. And there’s a continues abundance of eggs, cream, strawberries, cherries, apples, pears, and asparagus. This month also includes an elaborate fast-day menu, and an even more lavish one for a collation served in a garden, with many sculptures of sugar or butter and more than twenty kinds of sweets and comfits.
Anyway, here’s Scappi’s Month of May.