Fw: SC - Viking and early Irish foods

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

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> From: Anne-Marie Rousseau <acrouss at gte.net>
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: SC - Viking and early Irish foods
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 10:19 PM
> 
> Hello from Anne-Marie
> I know of no extant cookbooks from the Viking age or early Irish. BUT....
> 
> we know that the Romano-Brits were very influenced by the doings of Rome,
> and so conceivably aped their eating habits. We have a Roman cookbook
> (Apicius) from 2 AD with lots of fun recipies. We've held "Celtic suck
up"
> events, ie the local chief trying to impress the visiting Roman dignitary
> by preparing fashionable Roman food. And darn tasty stuff, too! There are
> several versions of this available, and even some recipes reconstructed
on
> the web, I believe, though I dont vouch for their authenticity. 
> 
> we have a 13th century European cookbook that was found in Scandanavia.
The
> recipeis for the most part are very similar to the rest of the French and
> English corpus of the time, with a few differences. There's nothing to
say
> that this is the food that the Vikings ate, though. You can get this in
> Cariadoc's collection.  Yum! Chicken Pastellum!
> 
> There's a great pair of books called Anglo Saxon Food and Drink by Anne
> Hagen. No recipeis, but she very carefully compiles archeological and
> literary data to get an idea of what foodstuffs were consumed and even
some
> idea as to how they were prepared, ie boiled, baked, etc. Her citations
> include early stuff that might work for you.
> 
> good for you for not going with the standard traditional modern spread
and
> calling it "viking"! And good luck!
> 
> -ANne-Marie
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