ANST - Two 15th Century Receipts for Steak

[Margo Lynn Hablutzel]

Madeleine de Lyndesaye asked:

        >> I would WALK to an event with a feast like that!  Please
        >> tell me you're going to be cooking this soon!

If I do, it will probably be in another Kingdom; Steppes seems pretty well
subscribed with people who want to do events.  Besides, it doesn't fit into
just any event, it helps if there's a fooles theme (12th Night, April
First).  I have an unfortunately tendency to fall into groups that are
heavy in cooks, so I have not been head cook on a feast in 4-5 years.


gwyneth said, in part:

        >> ... I always thought about venison being the primary meat.
        >> I looked it up after your post and sure enough it says beef too.


I always look for beef as I spent part of my early years on my family's
cattle ranch down south of here.  I tend to think of beef as meat, and the
rest (venison, bird, lamb) as secondary.

        >> This sounds great!  I would love the documentation.  Could
        >> you tell me how I can get a copy?

I'm collecting email addresses, and will try to put receipt and book into
one long file to mail to people.  I wasn't that organized when I first
designed the feast!  It was designed to cater to: (1) people who are afraid
of medieval food because they think it all has to be covered in sauce and
taste like soap (rosewater) or pie (canel etc.); (2) vegetarians; (3) a
certain Laurel of our group who insisted the only desserts are custards and
Digby's cakes, and no other dessert receipts exist; and (4) myself, as I
got heartily sick of feasts that all looked and tasted the same.


                                        ---= Morgan


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