[Sca-cooks] butter

[Stefan li Rous]

Margaret said:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>> Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>> >Maire commented:
>> >>I also ran across a mention, in one section of the Anon. Andalusian
>> >>cookbook (I've been spending a lot of time in it lately), that refers to
>> >>some people's custom of using butter with their bread, although I
>> >>remember thinking that it was unclear (to me, at least) if that was a
>> >>reference to butter-as-ingredient or butter-as-condiment.
> <snip>
> Oooh! Oooh! I can add to this one. It was cooler in Europe during what we
> consider the high middle ages. The Romans grew grapes in Britain, during
> the 13th century it was too cold. So it's not unreasonable to consider
> that Spain, Portugal, and France, all who share the same heating system as
> Britain (the Gulf Stream) would be cooler as well.

Yes, but we were talking about Andalusian Spain. I thought that
culture was several centuries before the 13th. Master Cariadoc?

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