SC - question regarding the Icelandic chicken

[david friedman]

At 6:46 AM -0800 1/31/00, Maggie MacDonald wrote:
>I was thinking of playtesting the Icelandic chicken that was so 
>thoroughly discussed a few months ago, and a question occured to me.
>
>Just WHICH sage would have been used in iceland?


I don't know, but it isn't very relevant, since the recipe isn't 
really Icelandic. Indeed, I am not at all sure that all of the 
ingredients would have been available in Iceland.

The recipe is called "Icelandic" because it appears in a recipe 
collection in an Icelandic medical Miscellany. But according to 
Rudolf Grewe, who researched the subject and published on it, that 
collection is one of several suviving daughter manuscripts of a lost 
origional which he believes to have been southern European.

My apologies if all of this has been gone over already; I wasn't 
following the thread.

David/Cariadoc
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