SC - Frumenty using barley?
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Feb 26 08:45:18 PST 1999
> Thanks Bear... I agree completely with your idea about why-wheat, but I
> can see from your answer that my last line was sloppy. I didn't mean
> "any reference for barley," but rather, " a period reference for barley
> in a 15thC grain- almond milk- sugar & saffron & egg yolks type
> frumenty", as goes with venison or "porpayss"
>
> Any luck now?
>
> Thanks again,
> Chimene
>
If you come across one, I want it. Barley was poverty food, just above
oats. In hard times, it may have substituted for wheat on a nobles table,
but I don't think they wrote about it.
Cato probably wrote about it, because he was the staunch defender of the
simple Republican virtues in a nation that was well on it's way to Empire
and Apicius.
Bear
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