SC - Re: SC dried squid

[Olwen the Odd]

There are other names some folks call dried meat or jerky, have you 
considered that?
olwen


>From: lilinah at earthlink.net
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Re: SC dried squid
>Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:00:55 -0700
>
>Ras wrote:
>>There was use of ice houses in the middle east during the middle ages.
>>Possibly Stefan has the posts on ice houses in his Flori-thingy.
>>
>>I am not saying that dried meat was not used, I am saying that, IMO, it 
>>was
>>rarely used.
>>(snip)
>>I am not
>>dismissing the idea entirely but rather am of the opinion that unless
>>documentation can be found to the contrary, basing an opinion on what 
>>'could'
>>have been as opposed to what is known to have been done is very risky and
>>should not be a basis for acceptance of the practice let alone 
>>proliferation
>>of it as an accepted standard of how things actually were.
>
>Then our opinions are not far apart. My point is that it is possible,
>therefore worthy of further research. I'm not saying that since it is
>possible (as many nonexistent things are :-), therefore it must be
>true. That's as bad as saying "well, if they'd had it, they would
>have used it".
>
>The point of some of my details, period and not, was as possible
>pointers for further research.
>
>First, I think it possible (i didn't say likely) that some city folks
>might have made or eaten it in a place without refrigeration (were
>these ice houses you mention accessible to everyone for food storage,
>or only to a certain limited segment of the population?), but that it
>might not have made it into cookbooks (the Indonesian home-made
>example), especially if the consumers are people not in the upper
>echelons - so worth reading literature with an eye to potential
>references.
>
>Second, if it was eaten by non-city folk it is highly unlikely to be
>in cookbooks, although again possibly mentioned in literature. I
>haven't yet read enough to form an opinion. I've read a moderate
>amount of books on the area (and drag the Moorish Reading Room - many
>of my books on the area - to some events), but am by no means an
>expert in the area. I have books with tales by travellers, but have
>not yet run across a mention of dried meat. I'll keep my eyes open.
>
>Anahita al-shazhiyya
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