SC - Re: Started as viking barley bread- now did Vikings drink milk

[Olwen the Odd]

But why waste the shard??

Viking Flatbread/Shardbread

7 cups gruttet flour or thick wheat flour
3 cups liquid (use whey or butermilk) ~ pre-dunked I guess haha
1 egg
salt

Knead flour liquid egg and salt thouroughly.  Add more flour or liquid as 
needed.

Shape the dough into small balls then press flat and thin

Bake bread in a glowing fire on shards of pottey or pans, about 2-3 minutes 
on each side.  Bread should be lightly brown and sound hollow when you knock 
on it lightly.  (mine come out almost like pita)

Good luck!
Lady Olwen

>From: ChannonM at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: SC - Re: Started as viking barley bread- now did Vikings drink 
>milk
>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:12:09 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/12/00 9:39:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
>
> > An interesting point. Was milk drunk as a common beverage? I'm sure it
> >  was consumed quite a bit in Scandinavian areas (that's one reason why
> >  the Innuits wiped out a Viking trading village in Greenland. They had
> >  been given milk as a drink and the lactose intolerant natives thought 
>they
> >  had been poisoned.) but what about the Continent or England?
> >
>
>When researching a 12th C Irish feast I included the Viking influence and
>read Egil's Saga. There are several food references in it and one that
>touches on milk in particular
>
>Finally, after the death of his sons, Egil discusses with his daughter and 
>he
>says;
>
><<“So worketh it with one that eateth dulse, thirsteth he aye the more for
>that (water)”
>“Wilt thou drink, father?” saith she.
>He took it, and swallowed a big draught, and that was in a beast’s horn.
>Then spake Thorgerd: “ Now are we cheated! This is milk”.
>Then bit Egil a shard out of the horn, all that his teeth took hold on, and
>there with cast down the horn.>>
>
>
>So, milk anyone?
>
>I guess it  wouldn’t be be wise to serve it to this Viking.
>
>Hauviette
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