SC - is medieval food yucky?
Tamara Crehan
tcrehan at mssupport.microsoft.com
Mon May 4 12:01:46 PDT 1998
Actually, meatloaf as we know it began during WWI when there were food
rations and such. Personally, I take the veggie leftovers from the
fridge - no matter what they are - and puree them in the food processor.
Add an egg or two, and some grain product (corn flakes, oatmeal, bread
crumbs) and mix with lean ground sirloin. Makes a great tasting
meatloaf, and those in my household who don't "do" vegetables get all
the vitamins and such without actually tasting them. <grin!>
Cessara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rudin at okway.okstate.edu [SMTP:rudin at okway.okstate.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 1998 2:58 PM
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: SC - is medieval food yucky?
>
>
> Stefan -
>
> I had never had meatloaf with any kind of filler (bread crumbs,
> milk
> soaked bread, oatmeal) until about 10 years ago. I think the
> oatmeal
> was used to stretch the meat and make it more economical (I keep
> wanting to say it's a 1950's kind of thing, but I don't know
> why.)
>
> Mercedes
>
>
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> Subject: SC - is medieval food yucky?
> Author: <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG> at SMTP
> Date: 5/3/98 8:31 PM
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>
> Anne-Marie said:
>
> >How about a list of foods that are easily recognisable by the biggest
> food
> >weenie, are readily available/easy to make AND are documentably
> period?
>
> <snip>
> >- --meatloaf (sans the oatmeal...use bread crumbs and flavor with
> fresh
> >herbs)
>
> This could make a useful start for a message file for the Florilegium.
> Since
> it would give some non-cooks some ideas of easy period-like foods for
> pot
> lucks and such. There is a similar list in "Traveling Dyshes".
>
> However, why do you say meatloaf without oatmeal? I was unaware that
> oatmeal was a common filler for modern meatloaf. But besides that, I
> would
> think oats would be a reasonable filler for medieval foods. Were oats
> not
> used this way? Or do all the medieval recipes that we would class as
> *meatloaf* not use any oats?
>
> Thanks.
> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net
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