SC - Foods in season and Norman recipes

[Osburn-Day, Katherine]

There is a nice article called "Rob Peter to feed Paul: halving feast costs"
available at:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/recipes/rprf.sca.feasts.html that discusses
seasonal availability.
Caterina

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Claricia Nyetgale [SMTP:Erin.Kenny at sofkin.ca]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:36 AM
> To:	SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	SC - Foods in season and Norman recipes
> 
> Ok, I'm cooking a feast for 200ish on November 4th and I'd like to 
> make it as period as possible.  My big question is, how do I know 
> what would have been in season at this point in the year?  We can get 
> apples, oranges and eggs (to name a few items) year round, so I don't 
> really have a very good sense as to what is available when.  Can 
> anyone point me in the right direction on this one?
> 
> Also, our soon-to-be King and Queen (Coronation is 2 weeks before my 
> feast) are both Norman.  Do we even have any Norman cookbooks or 
> should I just go with what I've got (cookbook wise, that is)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Claricia Nyetgale
>   cheerfully browsing through Cury on Inglisch and dreaming of a 
> feast
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