SC - Spinach Tarte

[Brenna]

>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:06:13 -0700
>From: kat <kat at kagan.com>
>Subject: SC - Anglo-Saxon food/drink???
>
>I don't know if any of you are following the "1000 Years in 500 Days"
>history being put together by the British newspaper "The Guardian," (but
>here's the web site if you're not; it's fascinating):
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/millennium/archive.html
>
>Anyway, on their Day 6 story, they linked an interesting writeup on
>Anglo-Saxon food and drink; I thought y'all might like to check it out:
>
>http://www.ftech.net/~regia/food.htm
>
>Thoughts, from anyone else who's read this?  I don't know where their
>source material comes from (though they refer a couple of times to items
>found at excavations) but I'd love to hear another opinion...

The info on the feast pages was put up by Sue Peacock. I know that the
pictures she used can also be found in a book called 'Cooking and eating
history' by K Stewart, call no. 641.3009 S849...lots of nice piccies and a
bit of background info on the pre-1066 Britain environment (as well as
other cultures, but I skipped those bits as they are not my field of
interest) - but the recipies therein seemed dodgy even to my introductory
forages into this field.

Sue said she was currently doing work for a group called Angelcynne, and to
look out for the web site - but I tried to find it with no luck - if
someone else finds it, can you send me the addy?

For pre-1066 stuff she thoroughly recommended Ann Hagan's 'A Handbook of
Anglo-Saxon food' and ' A 2nd handbook of anglo-saxon food and drink' which
I know can be ordered thropugh the net, but apparently neither really
contain recipes, just background info...depends on what information you
need I guess.

Michelle


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