SC - Convenience foods
Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
Mon Mar 20 19:02:27 PST 2000
It's interesting to note that medieval folks had their own convenience
foods. There's a recipe in Granado for "hordiate" (barley gruel, often
served to invalids) that one can take on the road. You start out by
making the basic gruel -- boiling barley in water until it begins to
dissolve, then straining out the solids. The portable version is made by
putting a thin layer of hordiate in a pan, baking it until dry, and grinding
the dehydrated gruel into a powder which can be carried in boxes or
leather pouches. On the road, one then reconstitutes the hordiate by
soaking the powder in some lean chicken broth and adds sugar (sugar
is a health food, you know).
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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