SC - Finding the Dream (a response)

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

Uh...what's "silverside?"
- --Maire

Lee-Gwen Booth wrote:
> 
> Unto the Gathered Cooks does Lady Gwynydd of Culloden send Greetings:
> 
> Following the Tavern Event, my Lady asked me if custard - specifically
> thickened with flour - was period;  I couldn't give her an answer.  Any
> ideas?  In fact, was anything known to have been thickened with flour in
> period?  (We have talked a lot about the various thickening methods which
> have been discussed on the list and I mentioned that flour doesn't seem to
> have been used in this way.)
> 
> Oh, the another dish which was served at this event was corned silverside -
> is this period, and if so, how was it cooked?  (I just happen to have a hunk
> of it in the 'fridge and would love the chance to try out a medieval recipe
> for it.)
> 
> Gwynydd
> 
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