[Sca-cooks] Healthy SCA cooking

[Stefan li Rous]

Maggie MacD. asked:
> The challenge, and one that I can think of no solution for, is for
> sweets/desserts.

That is difficult because most people would say a dessert has to be
sweet. And I think all natural sweeteners are carbohydrates.

> How would you address that in an SCA fashion??????

In "SCA fashion"? Use artifical sweeteners. Have the King declare
that sugar is a protein. :-)

I spent some time looking through the desserts-msg file in the
Florilegium.

If you say no added sugar rather than no carbs, then the following
recipe might fit your requirements.

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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> From: Stephen Bloch <sbloch at adl15.adelphi.edu>
> To: sca-cooks at eden.com
> Subject: sca-cooks special diets
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:35:13 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > I eat the Dean Ornish diet...  Strict vegetarian (except for skim milk
> > products) and less than 10 grams of fat a day.  No nuts, oil or butters,
> > avocado (New World, feh) etcetera.
> >
> > I've found a few period recipes I can adapt, but they taste poorly that way.
>
> A few weeks ago the University that pays my salary held a health fair,
> including a "Healthy Desserts Contest".  I entered a recipe my wife and
> I had recently worked out for our Catalan feast:
>
> "Figues alla francesa".
> Take a bunch of figs (ideally a mix of white and black), stem them but
> leave them otherwise whole, steam them in white wine for half an hour
> or so, then add spices (we used cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, etc.)
> Serve all by itself (or, if you're in the 20th century, pour hot over
> vanilla ice cream).
>
> Not only did it go over well at the feast, but it took second
> place at the mundane contest.  Zero fat, zero animal products, and
> extremely simple to make.
> 						Steve / Joshua