[Sca-cooks] Scottish Food

[Sue Clemenger]

Or, maybe...really fancy Scots, such as might have been eaten at the
court of Mary Stuart....ya know....French food! <g>
--Maire, who may be wrongly assuming french food came back with the
french styles of clothing....

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>
> "Jones, Craig" wrote:
>
> > Ps.  Someone asked me last night if I'd act as feast steward and he was
> > thinking of scottish food.  I told him 'get stuffed, we don't have any
> > primary sources from that period, try somewhere else...'.  Am I correct
> > in that assumption or is there a source out there I don't know about...
>
> How about that quaint Scottish restaurant, McDonald's?  <grin, duck, run>
>
> Oh all right, serious answer.  No, we don't really have any "Period Scottish
> Cookbooks" but we have some clues from historic and literary sources.  It
> sounds not unlike period English food, with emphasis on the foodstuffs
> charactaristic to Scotland as such, like oats, cattle and sheep products,
> wild game, cold-hardy fruits, salmon and other wonderful northern fish.
> Don't forget the Flori-Thingie:
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION /fd-Scotland-msg.html
>
> Selene C.