[Sca-cooks] cuskynoles

[Stefan li Rous]

Finnebhir asked:
> Um, excuse my humble ignorance, but what's a cuskynole? It sounds like a
> cross between a musky fish ball, and something else. I'm way off aren't I????

Yep, you're way off. A cuskynole is a fruit filled ravioli dish. One of
the few recipes in the surviving medieval manuscripts that has a picture to
illustrate it.

The reason that you hear about it on this list, is that this is one
of the inside jokes of this list. A few years ago, Master Cariadoc and
Master Adamantius got into a rather long, technical and spirited though
friendly discussion on how to make cuskynoles and what the diagram
really meant. They did offer to take it private a number of times, and
the general consensus was to have it continue. It was often way above
the level of a number of us, so most of the discussion did mostly
involve the two of them.

However, now the recipe has gotten it's own reputation and the mere
mention of its name brings up memories of the original discussion
to many of us.

I did not try to get down for the Florilegium the entire thead of
the discussions and counter-discussions, however there is a small
file in the FOOD section of the Florilegium. Had I saved the entire
thread, it would have been many times this large.
cuskynoles-msg    (44K)  8/21/00    A medieval fruit-filled pasta dish.

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