SC - saffron/paella
Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
Sun Aug 6 06:31:25 PDT 2000
And it came to pass on 6 Aug 00,, that Mark S. Harris wrote:
> Any idea/documentation whether this paella is period?
I don't know. The word does not appear in the 1726 edition of the Royal
Spanish Academy's dictionary. Certainly the modern recipes contain
New World ingredients like tomatoes. De Nola has a recipe for an oven-
baked rice-and-meat casserole*, so it is conceivable that a rice dish
similar to paella was being cooked in period. But I have not seen any
mention of one.
Brighid, in pre-Pennsic-panic mode, who shouldn't even be reading the
list right now, let alone posting.
*Call me a spoon tease, if you like, but I don't have time to provide this
recipe today.
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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