SC - I am not sure where else to try so...

[Elaine Koogler]

> > I think it had to wait
> > until the invention of cheap vegetable oils in the 19th century.
> >
> >
>
>While deep frying may or may not have had to wait until you specify, there
>are recipes that do call for frying things throughout the period 
>corpus.....Lard was a MAJOR commercial product during
>SCA period.  ... there is no indication that the introduction of frying, 
>deep
>frying or any other type of frying was in any way related to the rise of 
>the
>use of the insipid product called 'vegetable oil.' In fact, extant period
>recipes clearly indicate the opposite was likely.
>
>Ras

And those southerly areas in which olives grew had plenty of olive oil to 
deep fry in, and those northerly areas with good dairy cows had butter for 
the same purpose.  Sure, since then WE've found various oils better for the 
task, but that's no reason to think they didn't use what they had.

Bonne

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