[Sca-cooks] Irish Stew recipe

[johnna holloway]

There is a five page bibliography in the work
itself, covering everything from dissertations
to articles to unpublished papers and correspondence.
The article itself refers to the Brehon Laws (7-8th)
and Aislinge meic Conglinne which is 11th century.
Plus Dunton's observations in the 1690's.
Sexton did a series on Irish Foods for
RTE- see
http://www.rte.ie/tv/alittlehistoryofirishfood/regina.html
You might query her through RTE for more details.
She is a Sophie Coe award winner, by the way.
With regard to cookbooks in Ireland, which was mentioned
in an earlier post---
There were cookbooks published in Dublin as early
as 1724 by the way and perhaps earlier although
I haven't found my notes on early Irish Cookery Books
in print as yet. I am under the impression that at least
one title was earlier than 1724.


Johnna Holloway
Johnnae llyn Lewis




david friedman wrote:
> 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?
> ---------------------------------------------
>Johnna posted earlier---
> >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.