SC - Lefse/hleifr

[Decker, Terry D.]

> 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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