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[Wendy]

Baroness Clarissa said and Lord Ras replied:
> << Oh, I was once told that they didn't fry things in the middle ages  >>
> 
> Absurd. Certainly things were fried. I can't post all the evidence available
> but many recipes suggest using oil or other fat.

We have discussed period fried foods before, some of which is now in the
fired-food-msg file in my Florilegium. The following looks to be one example
from that file that looks pretty explicit to me:

> I wonder if this could be an adaptation of the Frytour of Erbes recipe out
> of Form of Cury (Curye on Inglysch p. 132), although the herbs are ground
> in this.
> 
> "Take gode erbys; grynde hem and medle hem with flour and water, & a lytel
> yest, and salt, and frye hem in oyle. And ete hem with clere hony."
> 
> We have a worked-up version in the Miscellany with sage, parsley, oregano,
> and thyme, but I have thought of trying a version on the assumption that
> "herbs" means "greens" in this context.
> 
> Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook

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