[Sca-cooks] Mammoth was (RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1206 - 13 msgs)

[Decker, Terry D.]

Ah yes, Siberian leftovers.

While I don't recall any "period" or pre-historic recipes for mammoth, there
was one prepared for the Tzar's court in the late 19th or early 20th
Century(IIRC).  If we can locate the recipes, we could try a historic
recreation of a Russian recipe for mammoth, probable prepared by a French
chef.

The thing about ingredients is that you can still find most of them if you
look hard enough.  I used to cook with raw milk, eggs right from the farm,
and range-fed beef when Norman was a little more rural.  Or you could be
like Ras, and grow the heirloom foodstuffs for your recreations.

Considering the way some of this goes, shouldn't that be a brodo of conejos?

Bear


> Should we ressurect the thread from what - 3 years ago? where
> I pointed out
> that we could get flash frozen mammoth from siberia. So it is
> a bit early
> period <WEG> but it does conform to the letter of the rules
> [maybe not the
> intent ... but we have lots of lawyers in society willing to split
> hares...coneys in brodo anybody?]
> margali
> the quote starts here:
> Your point is because we do not have precisely the same
> ingredients or have
> the tastes of a preceding society, we can not recreate the
> dishes of that
> society exactly.  True enough, but we are not doing "period
> cooking."  We
> are doing historical recreation. Historical recreation is an
> approximation
> of the past and it is a tribute to our knowledge and
> abilities to make our
> recreations as accurate as possible.