SC - olives

[Elaine Koogler]

I used a combination of green and black brined olives...from a can/jar.  It's what
was most readily available. Do try it...everyone here who did really thought it was
great!  Following the earlier suggestion, I plan on making some to take to Pennsic
for our fighters!

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Kiri said:
> > There's also the possibility of using a tapenade made of olives.  I found
> > something that looks, smells and tastes like a tapenade in A Taste of Ancient
> > Rome...a recipe by Cato, that one of my protege's redacted.  It's called
> > "Epityrum", and the recipe is:
> >
> > Make Green, black or varicolored epityrum in this way. Pit the green, black or
> > varicolored olives.  Season them thus:  Chop them, and add oil, vinegar,
> > coriander, cumin, fennel, rue and mint.  Put them in a small jar, with oil on
> > top and they are ready to use.
> >
> > It's really good, especially when eaten with cheese.  We made a flat bread
> > similar to foccacia (from the same source), and served a kind of soft cheese
> > spread (same source) and this olive paste.  People loved it!
>
> Thank you this sounds like a wonderful recipe. I'm not that fond of
> olives, but this might be worth trying.
>
> A while back, Ras brought up olives and that raw olives were pretty
> awlful tasting. This was the first time I realized that most of what
> is seen in the stores is not raw. Did you use olives that had already
> been pickled or were they fresh? Since these do seem to be pickled
> in this recipe in oil and vinegar it may not matter but if fresh
> they probably aren't "ready to use". The recipe may mean they are
> ready to use in that they need no more preperation though, rather
> than that they can be eaten an hour later.
>
> My file on olives is rather small for the importance they had in
> period around the Mediterranean. If folks have other period olive
> recipes or recipes where olives play a major part, I'd love to see
> them posted. How well are olives eaten in the SCA?
> --
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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