SC - chicken recipe

[Karen O]

Christina Nevin wrote:
> 
>         Adamantius wrote:
>         Appropriate dishes for the period (if we can believe Alexander
> Neckham)
>         might include
>         hens stewed in cumin sauce (usually almond-milk based)
>         <snip>fried rissoles filled with dried fruit, mixed fruit and
> possibly nuts
>         any of several rice dishes
>         possibly lamb or veal roast or boiled with a sauce
>         ditto rabbits or possibly in "gravy"
> 
> I like the sound of the hens in cumin and the rissoles.

I'll find something.

> What type of rice
> dishes? Could you please post the recipes?

See above. Rices dishes could include white  or colored/flavored
vegetarian dishes cooked in almond milk, a sort of meatless blankmanger,
rice cooked in meat broth, or by extension for vegetarians, vegetable
broth with or without saffron. For sake of being medieval food in
Europe, the rice should be moist and just a bit fluffy, but very soft,
more like rice pudding than like pilaf. And, you want to avoid burning,
which often afflicts rice dishes cooked in quantity. From years of
precooking and reheating large quantities of risotto I've come up with a
fairly foolproof method of using pre-cooked, unseasoned rice, and
cooking it with broth or almond milk to get a vague approximation of
what a medieval rice dish would be like. More later.  

> I might talk to some friends down
> south and see if I can get some rabbits (usually I can only get the
> expensive frozen Chinese imported bunnies in London - ridiculous!). Any
> ideas how many a normal bunny would feed as a mid-course dish?  Phlip?
 
Not Phlip, and don't play her on TV ;  ). Maybe 4-6 as part of a large
meal. If you joint or section them properly, 1 1/2 wabbits per table of
eight ought to do it pretty well. This assumes the wabbits are like the
ones we have here. Is anybody aware of any even remote industrial
standard, such as with, say, chickens? I'd guess a dressed rabbit around
here weighs about 2 1/2 pounds, with about half of that meat. One and a
half of those gives you just under two pounds of meat, which, with other
dishes and a nice sauce, ought to be plenty. Especially since not
everyone eats wabbit. Actually, Phlip, if you think I'm way off here
please jump in.

Adamantius, on the fly/no flies on me
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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