SC - tents (Was:Book on Mongol Foods, Islamic Medicine

[Stefan li Rous]

In a message dated 3/29/00 6:17:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

<< My feeling is thus:  If it existed, and was used for cooking during the 
time 
 of our "period", then it is period.   >>

There are many cooks on this list who cook theme feasts, set in a specific 
time and place. Some of us rarely if ever serve a feast outside the 
perimeters of any given text.  For instance, I have produced 2 feasts with 
recipes from al-Baghdadi and numerous other feasts in the last 17 years based 
entirely on period cookery manuals. Master Adamantius has produced delectable 
feasts using Chiquart's manuscript's and other manuscripts such as La 
Manegier, Dame Aiofe produces scrumptious late period feasts using only 
receipts from late period cookery manuals. There are others who escape me at 
this time.

My comments were not meant to be taken in the way you interpreted them. I was 
merely pointing out that if a period recipe calls for carrots then, 
cauliflower would be an unacceptable substitute merely because we have no way 
of knowing that a period cook would have made such a substitution unless the 
recipe said so. While such a substitution would not be out of line for an 
SCA-Cook, calling the resulting dish period would be.

Ras