SC - olives in period spanish recipes?

[Elaine Koogler]

I'll try to get it posted today, or at worst, tomorrow.

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Kiri commented:
> > I don't have the recipe in front of me, but there's an olive recipe that is
> > suspiciously like our modern tapenade in, I think, some of Cato's writings from
> > Roman times.  I got the recipe out of Ilaria Giacosa's A Taste of Ancient Rome.
>
> What is "tapenade"? If anyone has a copy of this book, could you please
> post the recipe/redaction? I started a file on olives (olives-msg in
> the FOOD-VEGETABLES section), but it is still quite small. For a food
> that I thought was common to the Mediterranean area, olives have not
> gotten much discussion on the SCA news/mail groups. Perhaps in
> period olives were used mostly for their oil or generally only
> eaten in an uncooked state? I'm saying "uncooked" rather than "raw"
> since from earlier comments on this list, the raw olives taste
> horrible.
>
> I have decided that some olives might be edible after some of the
> discussion on this list and trying a few. Several weeks ago when I
> was buying foods for the New World/Old World demo food game I bought
> a jar of mixed Greek olives just so I could try a variety of them.
> --
> THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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