SC - balsamic vinegar
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Tue Mar 16 23:17:00 PST 1999
Gertraud asked:
> Was "corning" a period practice? Did it vary from area to area? What meats
> were corned?
>From earlier discussions here it doesn't look like it was a period practice,
although there may be some similar preservation techniques.
> Also, ham was preserved by smoking, I think. Was that a
> period practice? Were other meats smoked?
Ham was salted and/or smoked in period. Yes, other meats were
smoked such as sausages.
For some more discussion and recipes, see these files in the FOOD
section of my Florilegium files:
ham-msg (25K) 11/ 3/98 Period ham. Modern sources. Recipes.
meat-smoked-msg (10K) 3/20/98 Medieval smoked meats. Smoking meats.
sausages-msg (80K) 1/12/99 Period sausages. Making sausage.
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Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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