SC - Seeking wheat illumination - OOP

[Marilyn Traber]

My sheckels here, to me a stew is a portion of meat, proportionally more
vegetation and flavorings cooked in a relatively large amount of liquid, but not
thin enough to be soup. Generally cooked on top of a heating source. I would rank
cassoulet d'isignie as a casserole or braised dish. This sort ofgoes along with
the idea that a stew would have been a\made in the corner of the hearth and a
casserole taken to the town bakery and popped in to use up the residual heat.
margali

> Okay, I'll go with all this, but I'm not sure where you're going with
> it. Is this about the discussion between HG Cariadoc and others on the
> subject of whether stew is period, with answers differing according to
> one's definition of "stew"? (Cariadoc seems to have felt that what most
> people mean by "stew" is the relatively modern American dish involving
> beef or other meat braised with a typical mix of winterish vegetables
> like potatoes, carrots, etc.)
>
> Yes, I'm aware of cholent and similar dishes such as cassoulet in its
> infinite variety, as well as the rather similar olla podrida. Are you
> just telling us that there are stewed dishes out there in period, or do
> you feel I've unfairly neglected to mention them in a discussion on
> modern beef stew with potatoes, etc. ? It's true I didn't mention all of
> them, but that was because I was commenting on the fact that the
> specific references in the current thread seemed to be mostly from
> English sources (and in this claim I was wrong, I now see, because
> something that I'd thought was from Gervase Markham was in fact from
> Platina, albeit pretty similar to a dish in Markham's "The English
> Hus-Wife", despite different locations and centuries).
>
> As to the sources you posted, I'm sure they were there, but I confess
> the only ones I recall seeing at this point are some references to the
> Talmud, and some references to dishes that are traditional and probably
> quite old, if not [easily] documentably so.
>
> Adamantius

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