[Sca-cooks] Caviar

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Hi everyone.  Does anyone have a period recipe involving caviar?  How about
> red caviar?  I have a giant jar of it and need to figure out what in the
> world to do with it.

There are recipes with roe and milt but not necessarily "caviar" which is a
cured product of fish eggs and salt.  Look for ingredients like "the womb of a
pike", a zoological misnomer perhaps but it's what you would call the egg sac,
right?

Here are some web sites that mention caviar in SCA period:
http://www.rus.caviar.ru/english/history_eng.htm
http://www.wines.com/lafayette/pearls.html

Enjoy your "Fish-Berry Jam"!

Selene Colfox