SC - Aoife's Dish and Historical Pizza

[L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt]

> >>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

Now there is an interesting thought.  Does anyone have any history for
foccaccia?  I could easily see it as the Italian version of a trencher,
if they did cook it in period, even if they never used it as a crust a
la pizza.

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