[Sca-cooks] Cracked Barley

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:39:56 -0700 lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> BTW, has anyone actually seen a "period" recipe
> for barley polenta? I
> thought the historical original was with
> semolina... However, there's
> a wheat allergy issue at the feast (i think
> it's the Bard of the
> Mists own lady), so i'm trying to find a
> historically plausible
> substitute, and he suggested barley...

As someone else mentioned, polenta with millet is period.  There's a recipe in
Granado (quite possibly one of the ones he plagiarized from Scappi).  The
recipe and my translation are in this Flory=file:
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/grains-msg.text
(sorry about the wrapping URL)

Brighid ni Chiarain