SC - bananas

[ruadh]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa answered my comments with: 
> > "Hey, I'll take some of those 'armored' potatos. Much better tasting
> > than those armored turnips. Looks the same either way, especially
> > from ten feet." :-)
> 
> Armored Potatoes? How unbearably bland! Bleah. Bleah. Bleah!

Perhaps. I still haven't had a turnip dish that I didn't find bitter.
But I've yet to try making them myself and I don't know that the cook's
whose food I ate, had been using any of the suggestions from this list
on choosing/treating turnips to make them less bitter.

However, that does reinforce the point I was trying to make, and that
was that I think we can do better than using the "ten foot rule" for
out level of authenticity.
 
> > Actually, oranges might be okay as both sweet and sour oranges were
> > used by 1600. Perhaps apples or grapes might be better choices though.
> 
> I'm uncomfortable with serving apples in midsummer... anybody else?

Oops. I wasn't thinking that comment all the way through. Still I'm
more willing to tolerate out of season foods than out-of-century
foods. As someone else mentioned, I think it does depend on the
type of event how much inauthencity should be allowed. A generic
SCA fighting event vs. one specifically taking place in 14th 
century France, for instance.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net