SC - pickled limes

[Ron Rispoli]

ChannonM at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 8/22/00 4:20:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
> 
> > > I will endeavor to serve acorns at every cooking activity I do.....
> >
> >  You have a period recipie for them! Want!
> >
> 
> I'm afraid I dont' have a period recipe and will gladly accept any that can
> be mentioned. So far I will be serving marzipan acorns at the next cooking
> event, for lack of a better solution at this time.
> 
> Hauviette

Let's try this a little differently: "You have a period recipe for them!
Eat them or starve!" Acorns appear to have entered mainstream cookery in
most parts of Europe in times of famine. They would primarily have been
used as a flour source for breads, or boiled for polentas, or in just
about any way chestnuts were eaten. I suspect, though, that wealthy but
starving nobs would not have included them in the Subtle English Bruet.

Par, what would you do with them? Boil them like a chestnut porridge?

Adamantius
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