SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

John and Barbara Enloe jbenloe at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 21 14:27:19 PDT 1997


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