[Sca-cooks] polenta

[Christine Seelye-King]

Actually, if it's called Polenta, he's not only not interested, he's
nauseous.  fra niccolo cooked a wonderful meal last Kingdom A&S, and made a
wheat(?) polenta, and it did not matter, the mere mention of it brought up
memories of a particularly nasty episode for him, and he was green. He can't
watch a commercial for "Mario Eats Italy" because they talk about it on that
spot.
Christianna

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Mark.S Harris
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] polenta
>
>
> Christianna commented:
> > My lord is sensitive to corn products processed with lye.  Especially
> > instant grits, and now, after an unfortunate incident with
> polenta, he can't
> > even hear the word without going green around the gills.
>
> Perhaps your lord would be interested in some of the period polenta,
> which was made of grains other than maize such as wheat, barley or
> spelt. There are recipes in Pliny and Apicius. The original recipes
> from these two, redactions of these recipes and numerous other comments
> on polenta can be found in this file in the FOOD-BREAD-GRAINS section
> of the Florilegium:
> polenta-msg       (15K)  5/ 8/01    Period polenta. Wheat and maize
> polenta.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/polenta-msg.html
>
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