SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

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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