SC - Millet recipe

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

In a message dated 11/13/99 11:04:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lilinah at grin.net writes:

<< Uh, maybe i'm being a bit weird here, but as an ex-vegetarian and the 
 mother of a current vegetarian, i never knew that a fish was a 
 vegetable :-)
 
 Suitable for certain meatless Medieval dishes, yes, but not for 
 modern vegetarian dishes... >>

Notice I said "possibly fish broth".  My thinking was that a) many 
vegetarians (yes, I know not all of them) eat fish; and b) fish is an 
acceptable period food for Lent, so fish broth would also be acceptable in 
period for Lent.
I think it is nearly impossible to cook a medieval meal which would satisfy, 
for instance, one of the vegan variety of vegetarians.  Most of the ember day 
version of things use eggs and butter, and I'm not even sure most of the 
Lenten fare would meet their requirements.  In general, I follow Lord Ras' 
example and try to make a large variety of items, without too many having 
overlapping ingredients, but I will use vegetable broth if a recipe simply 
says "good broth" and that is the only thing needed to make the recipe 
vegetarian.  If the recipe specifies "meat broth" or "broth of beef" or some 
such, I will not substitute.  We have vegetarians in our shire, as well as a 
lady allergic to both the alcohol and the sulfites in wine, and I will not 
cook a feast of which my own shire members cannot eat most of the dishes.  
I do note on my menus and ingredients list when I have changed something from 
the original.  If it's not obvious why I changed it, people can ask me.

Brangwayna Morgan
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