SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

[david friedman]

At 5:27 PM -0400 10/21/97, John and Barbara Enloe wrote:
>There are numerous documentations for potatoes in late period (last 25 or
>so years).
>
>                 jon
>
>
>At 11:09 PM 10/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>At 4:20 PM -0700 10/20/97, Ron and Laurene Wells wrote:
>>
>>>   A while back, after reading a few recipes on here, I made one of those
>>>basic one-pot dinners.  It consisted of a thick Chicken stew, made with
>>>potatoes, onions and a few green beans; homemade bread, and Mead served with
>>>it.  It occurred to me half way through the meal that it could easily have
>>>been a medival dinner!  Though it hadn't set out to be.  Just food...  I
>>>suspect that what I'd been reading on the digest had influenced my choices
>>>of how and what to make!
>>
>>Except that it couldn't have been. Potatoes were not used in medieval
>>European cooking, nor were green beans. And I cannot think of any medieval
>>recipe that is similar in style to what you describe, even aside from the
>>choice of ingredients--perhaps someone else on the list can.


I didn't say anything about "late period;" the word used in both the post I
responded to and  my post was "medieval." Are you suggesting that 1575
qualifies as medieval?

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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