SC - Bread for a wedding feast...

[Sharon R. Saroff]

In a message dated 7/4/99 7:43:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Weaver8002 at aol.com writes:

<< but  that sounds like a lot of work for a caravan, >>

Not particularly. Field kitchens were brought along on any major trip. More 
to the point these peoples were until quite recently a migratory people and 
generally carried everything they owned with them. Cooking would have been no 
harder traveling to China and back than traversing Pakistan or the Kurdish 
highlands.

<<and besides, I don't know  if that's a period way to go about your eggs!),  
>>

Not particularly. Almost without exception period middle eastern recipes 
which used eggs either broke the eggs whole across the top of the dish or 
added it on top in layers. Occasionally hard boiled chopped eggs or whole 
hard boiled yolks were used

There is a large corpus of easily understood period (better yet-medieval) 
middle eastern recipes so there is little or no need to use ethnic/regional 
recipes or modern recipes. Both His Grace, Duke Sir Cariadoc, myself and 
others have redacted large numbers of period Middle Eastern and Andalusian 
recipes so there is an extensive volume of ready recipes to choose from. 
Modern middle eastern food has gone through just as many changes as our own 
cuisine since the middle ages. The use of ethnic recipes may lend some bit of 
the exotic to a feast but does not make a feast any more period than using 
Betty Crocker or Lean Cuisine would.

Although it cheers me to see a renewed interest in period middle eastern 
studies, I am saddened by the fact that so many, if not the majority, of 
feasts make no attempt to use period middle eastern food which I have found 
to be even tastier than period European food. There are a handful of SCA 
cooks who consistently produce period feasts of several cuisines which are 
worth 10 times the price you pay for them. I suggest anyone who has not eaten 
good period food to seek out the events these people cook at and find out for 
yourselves what a special treat these foods can be. :-)

Ras
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