SC - Lady Seaton's Project

[david friedman]

At 12:00 AM -0500 3/14/00, Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:

>
>  I suspect that this is an ongoing project for Lady Seaton. She has begun,
>  with my good graces, a project involving adapting SCA foods and period
>  recipes into a form which can be eaten by people with serious illness or
>food
>  restrictions such as colitis, diabetes and several others. While the results
>  cannot be said to be period by any stretch of the imagination and I have
>  varying opinions about the results, I feel this work is a good thing and
>  might provide a means whereby those with serious illnesses might be able to
>  have a 'medieval-like' experience while being able to eat well.

Wouldn't it make more sense to  find period recipes that are 
consistent with those restrictions instead of altering ones that 
aren't? That way the people in question can have a considerably more 
medieval experience.

Concern about the health consequences of food is a very period 
attitude, and combining that with the religious restrictions results 
in a pretty wide range of recipes. Vegetarian recipes, in particular, 
are common in the surviving cookbooks.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/