SC - Thoughts on Medieval food

[LrdRas@aol.com]

_SOME_body wrote:

> >> Does not the archeological finds of anchor stones from Chinese junkets
> >>off the
> >> the west coast of the states make an equally valid observation that peanuts
> >> MAY have been introduced  to the New World by Chinese traders during  pre-
> >> Columbian times?

About those Chinese junkets...I have to ask...since the Chinese have
never been really big consumers of milk, how did they make their junket?
Some kind of soy milk, perhaps, used to make a sweetened bean curd
product? Inquiring minds, etc.
> >

And then at some point Cindy Renfrow wrote:
 
> Hello!  I recently saw a program on TV that dealt briefly with these anchor
> stones.  (Sorry, don't remember which program.)  Upon close examination,
> the narrator came to the conclusion that the stones were lost by 19th
> century Chinese-American fishermen who were using home-made traditional
> anchors.

There are Chinese accounts of a single emperor who encouraged
exploration outside of the Middle Kingdom (no, not _that_ Middle
Kingdom), building several enormous ships for the express purpose. I
forget the name and approximate dates (Era of the Warring States,
perhaps, a.k.a. "the Mulan years"), but I could look them up. One
account includes the claim that Chinese explorers discovered an
extremely large land mass across the Western Ocean, after having passed
some smaller islands...apparently this emperor died young and his
successor more or less closed the borders again, declaring it a crime to
build boats above a certain size.

Adamantius
Østgardr, East
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Phil & Susan Troy

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