SC - Re: tour in time

[david friedman]

At 1:55 AM -0400 10/16/98, SigridPW at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 98-10-15 03:21:35 EDT, you write:
>
><< >I'm helping on a feast in Dreiburgen, Caid that is exactly that.  First
>course
> >is Middle Eastern/ North African.  Second course is Norman/French.  Third
> >course is Scottish.  I'm not planning it, but seems it's done and OK.  Have
> >fun!
>
> Do you have any reason to believe the recipes are period? So far as I know
> there are no period Scottish cookbooks that have survived, and no period
> North African cookbooks unless you count recipes in Andalusian cookbooks.
>  >>
>
>I don't know what they have for documentation, and some of the suggested
>dishes were rejected out-of-hand (tomatoes, etc.), but what I saw of the menus
>doesn't look unreasonable.  I'm certain that the lack of cookbooks and recipes
>doesn't mean they didn't cook.

No--but it may mean that we don't know what they cooked, and thus cannot
reproduce it.


David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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