[Sca-cooks] Researching....

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Terry Decker wrote:
>
>
>>>This is probably a super stupid question, but it just seems like it should
>>>be easier to tell if strawberries were used in pies in the middle ages.
>>>
>>>
>>Sabina Welser (1553) has a recipe for strawberry tart, so it is definitely
>>Renaissance.
>>
>>Wild strawberries were harvested by the Romans, but there is not a lot of
>>evidnece of their use in the Middle Ages until they appear in the medical
>>writings of Nicholas Myrepus.  In mid-14th Century, strawberries began being
>>planted in manor gardens and strawberries became an item of religious art
>>early in the 15th Century.
>>
>>Without recipes, we can't tell whether the strawberries were eaten or merely
>>ornamental, but my opinion is they were prepared and eaten like other fruit,
>>especially in the Late Middle Ages.
>>
>
> I have a memory of a tart of strawberries, it's a custard and the berries
> are forced through a 'straynour'- it tastes rather like the Flan of
> Alemayn. I made it for a potluck 5 or 6 years ago. I think it was from
> _COI_ or _Two Fifteenth Century_. I'm not home, but I'll see if I can find
> it when I get home.
>
> 'Lainie
> -looking at the leftover ham and wishing someone else was home to prevent
> her from falling upon it yet again...

I know there's a strawberry tart in the Proper Neue Boke of Cokery, which is 16th century... maybe later I'll find it and post it.


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