SC - Medieval Portuguese cookbooks?

[Huette von Ahrens]

There are no extant recipes from that time period. The only information on
food stuffs is what archeologists have found in the bogs and other digs.
Most of the recipes are just put together based on those finds.  As for
Irish soda bread... it isn't period (baking soda wasn't available at that
time).

I've done irish feasts (can't help it considering my personal). I just make
sure people understand that the recipes are not documeneted but the feast is
being done to fit with the event theme (if that is the case). You can only
do the best you can. Good luck and let me know how it turns out!

Meadhbh


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From: owner-sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
[mailto:owner-sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG]On Behalf Of Gerekr at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 10:35 PM
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: SC - early Irish -- recipes???


Hello all,

Thursday night we're going to Cooking Night and hoping to assist the
autocrat of this fall's Amergin's Revenge (Celtic bardic) event with menu
development -- for 7thC Irish!!

I understand that they have the salmon purchased, and probably smoked by
now.  Gerek and I are collecting oatcake recipes that are at least pure
in ingredients, 8-)...

"Somebody" in this house is convinced that Irish soda bread would/could
be period for 7thC, others are not so sure...  Bear's Irish buttermilk
bread posted on this list has baking soda and cream of tartar -- I do
recall there being discussions about baking soda being period; and cream
of tartar can be scraped off wine barrels...

Ann Hagen's Anglo-Saxon food barely mentions Ireland; Thora Sharptooth's
list of Viking foodstuffs mentions what was found in Viking Dublin, but
we haven't actually seen that source ourselves yet.

Might ANYBODY out there have culinary info on this period and/or locale?

Thanks,
Chimene
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