SC - Period Veggie Broth

[Christina Nevin]

	Brangwayna wrote:
	>> ... The recipe just specifies "good broth"; I
	>>used vegetable broth because I wanted it to be a vegetarian dish.
...
	and Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon replied:
	>If you'd like to try period-style vegetarian cooking, consider
substituting
	>almond milk (and perhaps a little olive oil) for the broth. There
are some
	>recipes that seem to indicate that this was a fairly usual
practice, such as
	>"appulmose," no. II 35 in _Curye_on_Inglysch_. But I don't recall
ever
	>seeing a period reference to vegetable "broth."
	Elizabeth/Betty Cook wrote:
	>Le Menagier de Paris (late 14th c.), in his discussion of potages,
	>sometimes uses almond milk instead of meat broth on a fish day, but
	>sometimes uses water from boiling onions or from boiling peas.

The Perre recipe from Two Fifteenth Century Cookbooks (Cariadoc's
Miscellany) also reads:

Take grene pesyn, and boile hem in a potte; And whan they ben y-broke, drawe
the broth a good quantite thorgh a streynour into a potte, And sitte hit on
the fire;  
 
which can be interpreted to mean using the pea water rather than mushed
peas.

Al Vostro e al Servizio del Sogno
Lucretzia

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