SC - Cooking in a Period Environment
Par Leijonhufvud
parlei at ki.se
Mon Jun 30 23:18:11 PDT 1997
Linneah quotes an article on mustard and asks:
>
>I like mustard but I don't often see it at feasts. Was it really as
>ubiquitous as the
>above makes it sound?
>
_Food and Drink in Britain_ (C. Anne Wilson) quotes figures for a
fifteenth-century English household which in a given year used 3/4 lb
saffron, 5 lb pepper, 2 1/2 lb ginger, 3 lb cinnamon, 1 1/4 lb each of
cloves and mace, and 84 lb mustard seed. Mustard, after all, was locally
grown and was a whole lot cheaper than spices which had to be imported from
the Orient.
Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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