[Sca-cooks] Spanish seafaring food

[Elaine Koogler]

Master Cahan of Clan Kyle cooked a feast on this theme a few weeks back up
in the Eastrealm...one of my proteges brought me back a copy of the
documentation he very kindly sent to me!  (Thanks!!!)

It was quite interesting, and complete with recipes.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Spanish seafaring food


> I was browsing through LIBRO (Library of Iberian Resources Online) at
> http://libro.uca.edu and I came across an interesting tidbit.  The
following is
> from _Consulate of the Sea and Related Documents_, which is a 15th
> century compilation of laws, regulations, and customs governing merchant
> shipping.
> http://libro.uca.edu/consulate/index.htm
>
> The section below deals with food for sailors:
>
> 145-Food Which Must Be Provided for the Sailors by the Patron
> To continue: Every patron of a vessel or a boat which has a deck must
> provide the following food for the whole crew: Meat three times per
> week. This means on Sunday, Tuesday, and on Thursday. On the other
> days of the week he shall provide soup for them,{HYPERLINK  \l "N_7_"} in
addition to the bread
> given the crew each evening. Also three times per week, in the morning
> and in the evening he shall provide them with wine. To supplement the
> bread ration they should be given cheese or onions or sardines or other
> kind of fish.
> In addition, the master of a vessel is required to issue rations of wine,
if it
> will not cost him more than three and one-half besants. If he procures
> raisins or even figs, he should make wine; if he should not be able to get
> either figs or raisins or if they cost more than thirty milliares per
thousand
> rolls, the master will not be required to issue wine rations.
> Furthermore, the patron shall double the rations of the crew on all
official
> holy days. Finally, he shall employ proper personnel to prepare the food
> for the crew.
> -----------------------
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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