[Sca-cooks] True sandwich

[Laura C. Minnick]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jane Sitton wrote:
> > > Well, my name is:  Madelina de Lyndesaye.  I'm a Norman.
> > >
> > > Buwahahahahahaha
> >
> > Woo-Hoo!
> > Another Norman girl! Normans Rock!
> >
> > 'Lainie
> > (Elaine de Montgris, of course)
>
> Well, add a third Norman (assuming Anglo-Norman counts) to your list.

Well, okay this time... ;-)...

> I'd love to hear more about Norman cooking, but other than one manuscript,
> there doesn't appear to be much info.

Nope. But what we do know of the are helps- what they grew (which you can
sometimes find in household accounts and such), such as pears, apples,
nuts. Lovely seafood. Sheep, too, so I would guess there's lamb and mutton
available. We cook with what we got!

> Normans are a rather small and often maligned minority around my
> area, buried among a lot of Scots in kilts and 1595 Englishman.

Pish! Here in An Tir (the Land of Nervous Sheep) the overall scene is
Celts, Norse, and Elizabethans. A few pockets of folks like that 15th
crowd that Anne-Marie hangs with, and some 14th c. folks in BC. There's
also a lot of people who wear wonderful English, Norman, Greman, or
whatever names, who have 'evolved' through their years in the SCA and
their names no longer have anything in common with the Celt who was
kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery to some Bedouins who traded
them to the Mongols and somehow they discovered their long-long Japanese
mother and returned to Venice to be a trader and marry a woman from
Catherine de Medici's court... And you know who I mean...

Me- stoutly Norman. Raised near Caen. I gots lands scattered through
France and England, but the Montgris land I hold for my son is just south
of the County of Eu. Gimme that bottle of Calvados- I need a swig...

'Lainie