SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Oct 26 10:31:55 PDT 2000
Jenne Heise wrote:
>
> > > >Surviving the Middle Ages are dishes such as Frumenty, a bulgur dish
> > > >favored
> > > >by lords and clerics
> > > Frumenty is made from wheat, I thought. But I can certainly be
> > > incompletely
> > > informed on the topic.
> > Frumenty is not a bulgur wheat dish. Bulgur wheat is a cracked wheat which
> > has been steamed to pre-cook it so that it will cook quickly.
>
> It can also be made with barley.
> Hmm: 'barley or wheat' --> 'bulgur wheat', either during the authors'
> 'creative process' or that of the reporter?
If the author used baking powder in a supposedly medieval dish, I'd lay
big money on their suggesting the use of pre-steamed, cracked wheat,
which is what bulgur is, for frumenty.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
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