[Sca-cooks] honey butter/ icelandic chicken
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Thu Mar 7 22:47:18 PST 2002
Selene of Caid said:
> Hrolf Douglasson wrote:
> > would some-one be kind enough to post the modern versions of these recipies
> > on the list
> > thanks
> > vara
>
> I use one part honey to four parts salted butter. Yummy on wholemeal bread, a
> former staple of the SCA dinner table although it's been downgraded from
> "conjecturally period" to "for medicinal uses only." I keep it in my Feasting
> For Kids class because squishing stuff is fun for the kids to do.
Okay, why "salted" butter, rather than the unsalted? Availability?
Price? I'd think the unsalted would taste better/sweeter. But in period,
salted butter was more likely to be what was available.
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