SC - Period Potatoes
Ron and Laurene Wells
tinyzoo at vr-net.com
Tue Oct 28 12:12:57 PST 1997
>potatos aren't period.
> margali
>
>I know this was said in gest.... but someone on the Meridiean list made me
>aware of an exception..... Let me find it.
>
>Mistress Falada had written"
> Just an FYI - Dame Fiona has a period (yes, period) recipe for potatoes.
> And before anyone jumps me: I know that the white potatoes we have
> today are not the black, oily period variety. However, I have yet
> to see the period type any place that I could purchase them. Therefore,
> substitutions should be acceptable.
>
> Anyway, Dame Fiona's documentation was good enough to be accepted at her
> Grand Chef qualification feast. If anyone is interested, I am sure she
> would be glad to share the information.
>
>And later, Dame Fiona herself said:
> Second, as far as the potatoes are concerned, the recipe was
> published in a German cookbook in 1598. To describe the dish I
> would simply have to say "hashbrowns". Is this the same recipe you
> are referring to Tibor? Variations of the recipe are available in
> many modern cookbooks, but I got it from an English translation of
> the original recipe. It is called "Rosti".
>
> Tibor
I had seen that comment before that "Potatoes aren't period" but I don't
see how this is possible. There were Irish people living during Medival
times, and potatoes in Ireland are a STAPLE food! In fact, I saw on TLC
once, where hundreds of thousands of Irish men women and children starved to
death at one point (sorry, it was a few months ago, and I dont' remember the
date cited) because of a blight brought in from England that destroyed ALL
the potato crops on the Island. It left the poor with nothing (as the show
stated it , "not very little to eat but NOTHING to eat") to eat for many
months, and the population was devastated. I'm far from an expert in
Medival cooking, but I do not see how potatoes could be anything but period!
- -Laurene
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