SC - Re: Apicius site, some thoughts

[ChannonM@aol.com]

Bonne of Traquair wrote:
> 
> While shopping on the bulk foods aisle at Whole Foods today, I came across
> "Oat Groats" on sale for 99-cents a pound.  I didn't even know I wanted
> these, until I saw them. They'd probably be more correct than rolled oats in
> the various oat frumenty type recipes in the Markham and Digby books I am
> currently studying. Am I right about this?

Steel-cut oats are also a modern invention, but more closely resemble
the period coarse-ground oats than rolled oats do.
> 
> What other oat recipes are around? Oatcakes?  Surely I can fit this into the
> Celtic side of my feast next spring. Wonder how much of this I should stock
> up on while it's on sale? somebody posted a sort of oat "pilaf" a while
> back, didn't they? Let me just wander off to the Florilegium now

There are recipes involving oats in pottages also containing meat and
green herbs in both Gervase Markham and also Le Menagier.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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