SC - Purpose of this list is???

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

>>Aoife----remembering her first ( and pretty much last) disaster---a spanish
>>dish made like pizza from bread dough, butter, garlic, sausage and fried
>>green and red peppers! Boy did I get basted over that one!Nothing is worse
>>than a bunch of people wispering "That isn't period". THE LIST would have
>>been handy to me then.
>
>I guess this brings up again the advantages of working from a real medieval
>recipe instead of just a food list. But what is wrong with this dish? The
>only item I'd wonder about is the green and red peppers. Again, I'm still
>using other people's redactions. Are there medieval recipes for dishes 
>such as this?

Stefan,

I have not seen any recipes for pizza. Pizza is an modern American 
interpretation of Italian cooking. Peppers are American and were not 
available in the middle ages.  There are plenty of pie recipes but they 
are true pies not things put on flat bread.

Clarissa