SC - Is Arrowroot Period?

[Michael Newton]

The Corpora does state that we recreate Pre 17th Century Western European
culture, If you can find a recipe using Arrowroot from Portugual or Spain
before 1600, then by all means share it and it will be deemed a period item.

Thorbjorn
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank" <steinfeld at tqci.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:35 AM
Subject: SC - Is Arrowroot Period?


> If I may be so bold as to pose this question a little differently, why is
> arrowroot not period even if its source is the new world.  Trading with
the
> "new world" dates to as early as 400 - 500 AD (Irish) 1065 (Norse) and
1500
> (Spanish) all of which are period.  We know that the Norse traded European
> foods to the natives, it made them sick! So why not the reverse?  I am a
> "new cook" but if we really mean by "period" European, then we should say
> so.
>
> Muirghen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angie Malone <alm4 at cornell.edu>
>
>
> >Is arrowroot period? I was told that Native American indians used it for
> >thickening.
> >
> > Angeline
> >
>
>
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