[Sca-cooks] celtic food

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

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From: "johnna holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] celtic food


> Where? When? or just generic early Celtic?
> A sense of place and a timeframe helps.
> You could start with something like Jane Renfrew's
> chapter or booklet on Prehistoric Britain if you want
> to do really early foods... Or read C. Anne Wilson's
> Food and Drink in Britain or Brid Mahon's Land of Milk
> and Honey might be good for background.
> But these might not be appropriate if you want a different
> era or place.
>
> Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
>

It's really pretty generic - the event is "Celtic", relatively generic
though leaning towards Irish, it's named Cattle Raids so I figure I'll do
two kinds of beef, plus a couple other meats (probably a fish of some sort,
and a poultry of some sort - I'm hoping duck if I can find it reasonably
priced), plus vegetarian stuff / side dishes - this is not an event where
the feast is the *center* of the event, it's an interbaronial war.
However.... I don't want it to degenerate into a "generic SCA feast"
either... and I'm used to studying later period food, so...I just wanted
some jumping off points for books to read, etc. so I can get a feel for what
ingredients / methods I should be working with for something pre-1000.  Does
this help?  Thanks for the earlier suggestions...

Generys

> Generys ferch Ednuyed wrote:>
> > Hi! I know there aren't any pre-13th century cookbooks, so if one was
trying
> > to do a *reasonably* accurate (i.e. tasting good and making people happy
is
> > more important than completely period, but I do want to be at least
> > plausible) early period Celtic feast, where would you start looking for
> > sources? (and I'm checking the Florilegium now....)>
> > Thanks> Generys
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