SC - Frumenty using barley?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> 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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