[Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #1274 - 16 msgs

[Smith, Judith]

I believe it was Henry VIII that had the difficulty with the eels-though it
was one of his favorite foods it aggravated his gout to the point of
incapacitation. Maybe Richard did too, but I don't remember it being an
issue like it was with Henry.

> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:01:50 -0500
> From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] lampreys
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
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> Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
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>  > On 14 Jan 2002, at 18:16, Mark.S Harris wrote:
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>  >> We have eel recipes, and in fact in medieval times they seemed to
>  >> have raised them in ponds much as we do catfish. Are there some
>  >> period lamprey recipes?
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>  > Yes.  Nola, Platina, "An Ordinance of Pottage", "The Neapolitan Recipe
>  >  Collection", "Forme of Cury"... and probably many others.
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> Okay, before this gets away from us... I was being... um... amusing at
> the expense of the different accounts of the death of King John, some of
> which refer to his suffering from a surfeit of peaches/apricots/with or
> without ale as well, essentially super-dysentery... and according to
> some others, having eaten too many lampreys. Or am I thinking of some
> other English king?
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> It seemed like the right thing to do at the time...
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> Adamantius
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> Phil & Susan Troy
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> troy at asan.com
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> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
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