[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2320 honey butter/OT question

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:20:02 -0500 sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org
writes:
> Message: 4
> From: "Wanda Pease" <wandap at hevanet.com>
> Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Re: Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England

> Just a quibble on the honey-butter statement.  Although she does
> state that:
> "Honey-butter was a popular spread throughout the Middle Ages.  It
> is
> recommended boiled with sweet-flag as a cure for a cough."

   Dad was a Pennsylvania Dutchman.  When he had a cough, his favourite
cure (from his mom) was melted butter with brown sugar.  This in no way
resembled honey-butter as used at events.  Mom (English/Scots descent)
made it for him under severe protest.  I wouldn't want to use what she
made for him either on bread or as a cough syrup, but it soothed his
cough to some extent--or maybe he just thought it did.

   But more importantly, I do not see the above statement as
justification for serving it with bread at a feast.  I realize that books
on right living through diet were popular throughout the SCA period, the
sentence describing the mixture makes it sound as if it had a specific
state in which it was used (boiled) and a specific purpose it served
(cure coughing).

   I have an OT question as I have noticed there are medical folk on the
list.  In words of syllables an idiot layman (me) can understand, what is
the condition rhachitis?   Does it relate to the hips?

    Thanks!

    Elizabeth

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