SC - period dishes for Ari

[Stefan li Rous]

Ari answered me with: 
> > Or name some food dishes you like, and perhaps I or others can point
> > you to similar dishes in medieval cooking. I may even be able to point
> > you to specific files in the Florilegium where you can find recipes for
> > those items.
> 
>        Pot roast, any potato dishes, any fish or fowl, finger foods, and
> most especially...desserts!  :)

Ok. Let's see what I can offer.

Pot roast -
roast-meats-msg   (66K)  7/ 3/00    Hints and period recipes for beef roasts.
roast-pork-msg    (23K)  2/14/00    Cooking pork roasts. Medieval recipes.
   Associated files:
cheap-meats-msg   (18K)  9/ 4/97    Cheap meats for feasts. Cooking with them.
larding-msg       (12K)  6/16/99    Inserting fat into meat in period
and today.

potato dishes -
   Not period at least for "white" potatoes. There seem to be some late
period Sweet Potato recipes. This is in the FOOD-VEGETABLES section:
root-veg-msg     (134K)  6/ 8/00    Medieval and period root vegetables.

any fish or fowl -
chicken-msg      (138K)  8/31/00    Period and SCA chicken recipes.
Complet-Anglr-msg (14K)  5/26/00    Recipes from "Compleat Angler", 1653.
duck-goose-msg    (20K)  9/14/00    Cooking duck and goose. Recipes.
eels-msg          (22K)  6/13/00    Eel dishes. Getting and cleaning eels.
exotic-meats-msg  (57K)  1/31/00    Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans,
ostrich, 
                                       crawfish, dormice.
   (I'm assuming you class swans and ostrich as fowl and eels with fish.
You did
say "any")
fish-msg         (109K)  5/26/00    Medieval fish dishes. Fish in the SCA.
peacocks-msg      (37K)  2/ 2/00    Serving peacock sotelties safely.
roast-chicken-msg (39K)  8/31/00    Period and SCA baked or roasted chicken.
salmon-msg        (41K)  5/26/00    Period use of Salmon. Recipes.
seafood-msg       (65K)  9/ 6/00    Medieval non-fish seafood. Recipes.
   (I'm not sure if you were classing shellfish with fish or not but
here it is)
stockfish-msg     (81K)  5/26/00    Period preserved fish. Dried, smoked
and 
                                       salted fish. Recipes.
turkeys-msg       (34K)  7/20/00    Use of turkeys in Rennaissance Europe.

finger foods -
finger-foods-msg  (20K) 12/ 7/99    Ideas for finger foods at feasts and events.

desserts! -  In the FOOD-SWEET-DECORATED section
14C-Sweets-art    (17K)  9/14/00    "Sweets and Treats of the 14C" 
                                       by Lady Hauviette d'Anjou.
  (Not online yet. I just finished editing it today. Maybe by the end of this
     weekend)
candy-msg        (136K)  9/23/99    Period candy. Recipes. Candied fruit peels.
Candying-art       (9K)  6/29/99    Period and modern descriptions of
the 
                                       candying process by Alys Katharine.
chocolate-msg     (40K)  2/28/00    History and description of early chocolate.
cookies-msg       (57K)  1/12/00    Period cookies. Recipes.
desserts-msg      (78K)  1/11/00    Medieval and SCA dessert recipes. Sweets.
gingerbread-msg   (39K)  1/31/00    Medieval gingerbread. Recipes.
  (Not like modern gingerbread cake. But you might like it)
marmalades-msg    (53K) 12/20/99    Period marmalades and fruit jellies
and jams
Sugarplums-art    (19K)  7/15/98    "Visions of Sugarplums" by Mistress 
                                       Renata Kestryl of Highwynds.

Now a number of the recipes in these files may still be too non-modern
for you, but there are I think others that may be acceptable. On others,
such as the peacocks-msg file I really wasn't sure from your description.

I hope this helps. I know it will probably keep you busy for awhile. :-)

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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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