[Sca-cooks] Greetings

[Philippa Alderton]

--- Aurore Gaudin <Aurore at hot.rr.com> wrote:

> I know about Stefan's site, love it, keeps it as a
> favorite.  Just looking for the right info takes a
> while.  I was told by the shire's old feastacrat to
> expect at least 70-80.  Alot of my recipes are from
> the foodtv.com.  Just alot are lamb and poultry.  I
> was told by someone that lamb won't go well with
> alot of people, being Texas, it has to be beef, pork
> and chicken.  And I know lamb will be expensive if I
> don't do it right.  I'm just wanting help in
> figuring out what to do with some of the problematic
> parts.  Aurore

OK, FoodTV has some great recipes, but they aren't
particularly period. HOWEVER- the Arabs have been
cooking and eating for a number of years, and there
are a lot of Arabic recipes out there, from period.

Someone mentioned Cariadoc's site- that's a good place
to play. You might look at the recipes you've found,
then look for somewhat similar foods in the Arabic
corpus- lentils, eggplant, chickpeas, and a few other
things are common to both period and modern Arabic
foods, simply because they grow there, and other
things don't very well.

As far as beef vs lamb goes, goats and sheep are much
more herded in the Arabic Mediterranean countries-
cattle much less so. There are, however, recipes for
both.

Pork is very much avoided by most Arabs and Jews, so
there will be very little in the way of pork recipes.

BUT- while I'm suggesting you look around for similar
foods to those you've found in the modern sources,
it's generally a lot easier to just look for period
foods, and don't worry about modern ones.

Period food isn't really that difficult to cook. They
use many of the same techniques we use today, and many
of the same ingredients, they just tend to arrange and
combine them differently- for example, most European
roasts are par-boiled first (I think it's to
ameliorate the hot, dry qualities of beef) and then
roasted, but very early cookery (Anthimus) does
without the boiling step in some cases.

Phlip

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And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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