SC - Menu, Meat with Fish
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Wed Apr 23 17:23:17 PDT 1997
Having looked at Lord Ras's menus: Ah, the Menagier. I was looking at
English sources; did I forget to specify that? I'm nowhere near as
familiar with the French menus, and offhand memory certainly will not
serve on its own.
I'll have a look shortly at the menu in NBoC -- but one quick comment.
Contrefait brawne is a fish dish (just as eggs in Lent is an almond dish).
The rest, I'll have to look at. There are a lot of standard dishes that
have both fish and meat versions; but I may simply have missed that menu.
It's been a long time since I looked at the menus in NBoC.
Obviously eating habits vary from place to place. For that matter,
they vary according to time. But if you are right about Henry V (which
you may be), that's an interesting datum, and very much at odds with
the rest of the 13-15th C record from England that I'm aware of.
Cheers,
- -- Katerine/Terry
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