SC - Lefse/hleifr
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Tue Aug 24 08:58:05 PDT 1999
> In a message dated 8/24/99 10:34:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:
>
> << Back to the cheap and filling foods for feasts, maybe? >>
>
> Hopefully not. The feasts we seek to recreate are for the most part fine
> dining at it's best. Years of work has been done to educate the typical
> SCA
> person regarding actual period feasts. The documentation of cheap and
> filling
> food does not necessarily mean that those foods were ever served at
> feasts.
>
> IMO, I hope such documentation either does not exist or else clearly
> indicates that they were not meant to be used in situations of ceremony,
> festival or fine dining. The corpus of recipes we have to work from were
> clearly used for such occasions and the presence of cheap and filling at
> such
> a meal is neither appropriate nor is it indicated in the extant cookery
> manuals we have access to.
>
> Ras
>
Right quote, wrong person. It's Phlip, whose looking for the cheap, filling
food.
As to the rest of your argument, answer me this:
What would have been properly served at a feast for Magnus VII, King of
Norway and Sweden, slightly pre-dating Richard II of England?
Bear
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