[Sca-cooks] lampreys

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius said:
> Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
>  > On 14 Jan 2002, at 18:16, Mark.S Harris wrote:
>  >> 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?
>  >
>  > Yes.  Nola, Platina, "An Ordinance of Pottage", "The Neapolitan Recipe
>  >  Collection", "Forme of Cury"... and probably many others.
>
> 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?
>
> It seemed like the right thing to do at the time...

Okay, so Stefan is gullible.

I still would like to hear any information about lampreys being
eaten in period or their capture/raising. And I'm still wondering
if anyone has served them at an SCA feast.

Thanks for the referances, Lady Brighid.

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