SC - Re: Welcome and Any help for the Irish? LONG

[david friedman]

At 8:00 AM -0500 2/5/00, ChannonM at aol.com wrote:

>...



>I actually have a question for the list as I am working on a feast for the
>upcoming Clancy Day Event, March 25, here in Star Leaf Gate. I am working
>with a theme centred around a 12th C castle , Carrickfergus,in County Antrim
>Ireland. It's in Ulster, on the North Atlantic.I'm also reflecting the
>infuence of the Vikings. That's some background. Now for my feast.

...

It sounds like a valiant effort. A few comments:

I assume you realize that the recipe collection in the Icelandic 
Medical Miscellany (source of Icelandic Chicken and Lord's Salt, 
among other things) is not actually Icelandic. It is one of several 
surviving daughter manuscripts of a lost original, and the best guess 
(due to Rudolf Grewe) is that the original is southern european. So 
it represents a collection of recipes that someone in Iceland had 
access to in period, but we don't know whether they were actually 
cooked in Iceland in period.

Egilsaga has a description of a feast, including information on what 
not to feed to Egil Skallagrimsson if you don't want your party 
broken up.

Mistress Thora Sharptongue has a a web site with a lot of information 
on things Norse, and is a reliable source.

I have a recipe for oatcakes, based on the verbal description in 
Froissart and included in the current Miscellany; I don't know if it 
would be useful to you.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/