SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

[david friedman]

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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