[Sca-cooks] Irish Stew recipe

[david friedman]

>Cathal Cowan and Regina Sexton's work
>Ireland's Traditional Foods, which was
>published in 1997 for the GEIE/ Euroterroirs
>project, has a short section on "Irish Stew"
>or Struisin Gaelach. Sexton maintains that
>a rudimentary form of Irish stew was current
>as early as the seventh century.... It would
>have been made from the meat of "dressed
>wethers (castrated male sheep) that had been
>delivered as payments for rents and taxes.
>The meat was boiled with whatever available
>cereal there was and whatever vegetables and
>or potherbs that were at hand. This probaby
>would have included onions at times.


Interesting. Do the authors say what the evidence is on which they
base that conclusion? Is it just speculation or are there actual
accounts back to the seventh century? Archaeology?
--
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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