SC - Piecrust debate continues...

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Hi all from Anne-Marie
re: risotto...
our local guild (specifically Eden, who does not appear on this list) did a
fair amount of digging for risotto-like units. Like you, we had a feast
that a risotto dish would have fit perfectly. What Eden found was that
there was indeed a dish that resembled risotto in its preparation and
texture, but contained so much cheese it was more a rendition of macaroni
and cheese in taste. Yum!!!! Most creamy and flavorful and wonderful stuff.
 We will be fine tuning it at the reconstruction meeting Wednesday and I
will ask if I can post the results.

We found no examples like the modern risotto flavored with herbs, or
mushrooms or anything like that. Just the oh-so-cheesy one. Yum!
- --AM

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> From: L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt <liontamr at ptd.net>
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: SC - Risotto?
> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 6:31 AM
> 
> Hello, all. I am wondering if anyone has come across a period recipe for
> Risotto or a Risotto-like dish. It occured to me this would be great
event
> food, espescially since it's cheap, and leftovers can be made into Rice
> Cakes for frying in the morning (yum!). Risotto with fresh herbs smells
so
> fragrant cooking as the stock is ladled in slowly and stirred, stirred,
> stirred, that it draws crowds to the kitchen area. I try to keep the food
> relatively period when I go to camping events and am just cooking for
family
> and friends. I really enjoy making Risotto. It's a sensual experience!
> 
> There does not seem to be anything resembling Risotto in my
English/French
> collection, but that does not surprise me very much. Does anyone have a
> Southern European source with something like this in it? I suppose the
> ingredients would be part of the clue: Rice, olive oil or butter, stock,
> herbs or spices, a little cheese added at the end. Or perhaps this is
> another no  brainer that wouldn't have been written down?
> 
> Aoife---Curiosity almost killing her----and snowed in with a foot of
fluffy
> white stuff, to boot! No work today, and all my sources are at work for
> display (it's a library!)
> 
>
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