SC - a recipe for kids to try

[Cathy Harding]

I have found that hedgehogs is a great one for kids.  I made a lot of these
for a feast a few years back and I had all the kids in the principality
making them.  One of them was serving the high table and had the prince at
the time (Georg - who is again prince,  that's for Morgana and any other
Oerthans on the list) rolling with laughter and almost in tears with the
tale of hunting and catching them (not to difficult) and preparing them
(they are the very devil to clean you know).  I made them this weekend for
a potluck feast and the 10 year old in our party took hers home to show her
mother before she would eat it.

Here is the original
Yrchouns
Take Piggis mawys & skalde hem wel, take groundyn Porke and knede it with
spicerye with pouder gyngere and salt and sugre, do it on the mawe, but
fille it nowt to fulle, then sewe hem with a fayre threde and putte hem in
a Spete as men don piggys, take blaunchid almaundys and kerfe hem long,
smal and scharpe and frye hem in grece and sugre, take a litel prycke and
prykke the yrchouns, an putte in the holes the almaundys every hole hald
and eche fro other, ley hem then to the fyre , when they ben rostid, dore
hem sum whyth Whete flowre and mylke of almaundys, sum grene, sum blake
with Blode and lat hem nowt brone to moche and serve forth.
It s from 2 15th century cookery books (i think that 's what my notes day)

Bascially, I don't do the Piggis mawys (that's like stomach or intestine,
you could use sausage casings).  I usually just do meat balls with spices
and bread crumbs and egg to hold it together, and bake them them with
slivered almonds that have been browned (with or without the sugar) as
spikes with cloves or currants as eyes.  I have glazed them with a flour
batter and also served them with out.

It is a very hands on recipe that kids like.

BTW
in Viandier the same recipe calls for finely chopped meat, grapes, crumbled
rich cheese placed in sheep cauls (stomachs) which are spitted and roasted
and then treated the same way.

Maeve


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