Lady Katherine McGuire asked:
> On this topic. A friend just returned from Irland and was discribing the
> food she encountered. She said that they offered "blood pudding," both dark
> and white, and some other kind of saussage. Is ther a recipe for these or
> any documentation for our period. I thought it might not have changed much.
> I want to do this for part of a "breakfast" for a up coming estates meeting
> for another group.
Blood pudding for breakfast?!!! Yuck. :-)
Check these files in the FOOD section of the Florilegium:
haggis-msg (79K) 10/ 6/99 Scottish haggis recipes. comments on haggis.
organ-meats-msg (60K) 5/25/00 Period cooking of organ meats.
puddings-msg (58K) 1/ 7/00 Medieval puddings. Recipes.
Custards.
sausages-msg (96K) 6/ 8/00 Period sausages. Making sausage.
White-Mash-art (8K) 11/20/99 A white pudding from the
Harpestraeng
manuscript by Elysant de Holtham.
Perhaps this file might also be of use. However, we just had a discussion
on breakfasts with some menus from period being given. They are not in
this file yet, but I will try to have them in and this file up on the
website in the next week or so.
breakfast-msg (50K) 2/15/00 What's for breakfast? SCA and period.
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Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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