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If it helps, I've documented melons of various sorts as period in both China and
Japan, and I'd be amazed if the same weren't true of the Middle East and Spain.  I
know that watermelon is period at least in north Africa.

I don't have a period recipe for it, but strongly suspect that pickled beef is
period and I do have a recipe for a kind of pickled pork...pork brawn.  The recipe
that has been redacted in Dining with William Shakespeare is excellent!  It does
need refrigeration, but can and should be served cold with a good mustard.  That
way, you'd combine both a good, recognizable meat with the benefits of vinegar/wine
used to pickle.

Kiri

Jenne Heise wrote:

> > The object of this lesson is that if the fighters are presented with, say a
> > nice pork
> > pie, they will eat it and like it. One of the energy foods that I always bring
> > and I
> > usually run out of is dried apricots. And fighters being the beasts that we
> > are, will
> > eat anything.
>
> I've found that this is true at feasts. Dayboards, however, are a nother
> situation, because you are trying to get fighters to eat during the heat
> of the day, during the actual fighting. When the heat is bad, it's hard to
> get anyone to eat anything, especially unfamiliar foods or combinations of
> foods. Heat can make people queasy. Mucdh though it may pain your period
> cook soul to let people get away with food they recognize, such as cold
> roast meat, hard boil eggs, bread, fresh produce, pickles, Serving a lot
> of food that the fighters can't stomach or shy away from benefits nobody.
>
> Our shire does two reasonably large fighting events, one 300-person theme
> evetn and one big war camp--800 people and up, every year.
>
> For the se events, we have fresh fruit including melons (I know that I
> can't document europeans eating melon fresh in period, sorry),apples,
> grapes and pears (documentable), other soft stone fruits and quartered
> oranges (doubtful) fresh vegetables-- carrots and celery, and turnips if
> I'm requesting it: turnips and celerey may have been eaten raw--, pickels,
> olives, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and bread. For the big event there are
> also modern pretzels, olives, and graham crackers; for the smaller event,
> there is a protein of some kind- cold chicken was less sucessful than
> breadrolls with sausage, chhese, mushrooms, or onions baked inside.
>
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        jenne at tulgey.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>
> " Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
> That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
> So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
> For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!" -- Kipling
>
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If it helps, I've documented melons of various sorts as period in both
China and Japan, and I'd be amazed if the same weren't true of the Middle
East and Spain.  I know that watermelon is period at least in north
Africa.
I don't have a period recipe for it, but strongly suspect that pickled
beef is period and I do have a recipe for a kind of pickled pork...pork
brawn.  The recipe that has been redacted in Dining with William
Shakespeare is excellent!  It does need refrigeration, but can
and should be served cold with a good mustard.  That way, you'd combine
both a good, recognizable meat with the benefits of vinegar/wine used to
pickle.
Kiri
Jenne Heise wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>> The object of this lesson is that if the fighters
are presented with, say a
 > nice pork
 > pie, they will eat it and like it. One of the energy foods that I
always bring
 > and I
 > usually run out of is dried apricots. And fighters being the beasts
that we
 > are, will
 > eat anything.
I've found that this is true at feasts. Dayboards, however, are a nother
 situation, because you are trying to get fighters to eat during the
heat
 of the day, during the actual fighting. When the heat is bad, it's
hard to
 get anyone to eat anything, especially unfamiliar foods or combinations
of
 foods. Heat can make people queasy. Mucdh though it may pain your period
 cook soul to let people get away with food they recognize, such as
cold
 roast meat, hard boil eggs, bread, fresh produce, pickles, Serving
a lot
 of food that the fighters can't stomach or shy away from benefits nobody.
Our shire does two reasonably large fighting events, one 300-person
theme
 evetn and one big war camp--800 people and up, every year.
For the se events, we have fresh fruit including melons (I know that
I
 can't document europeans eating melon fresh in period, sorry),apples,
 grapes and pears (documentable), other soft stone fruits and quartered
 oranges (doubtful) fresh vegetables-- carrots and celery, and turnips
if
 I'm requesting it: turnips and celerey may have been eaten raw--, pickels,
 olives, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and bread. For the big event there
are
 also modern pretzels, olives, and graham crackers; for the smaller
event,
 there is a protein of some kind- cold chicken was less sucessful than
 breadrolls with sausage, chhese, mushrooms, or onions baked inside.
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise       
jenne at tulgey.browser.net
 disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
" Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
 That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
 So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
 For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!" -- Kipling
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 Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
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