Meats for feasts was Re: [Sca-cooks] first feast: Atlantia's Crown Tourney

[Kirrily Robert]

maire wrote:
> Hi, Rosine. About the most unusual meat I've ever personally cooked and
> served for an SCA feast was goat, and that was in this amazing dish for
> a Middle Eastern feast.  It was a stewish thing (I forget the actual
> name of it, without going and digging out the cookbook) that had chunks
> of meat cooked with meatballs stuffed with almonds, and stuffed dates,
> and all sorts of goodies.

I was at a middle eastern event once where they served a Persian camel
dish.  Only a small amount, they just made enough for about half the
attendees to have a small taste, it was more a novelty than a particular
dish of the feast.  That was in Stormhold, in Lochac, and I think the
dish was "traditional" rather than documentably period.

At a camping event a while ago, I tried beaver.  Apparently it was eaten
in period as a lenten dish, because beaver was one of those animals
considered "fish".  Here in Ottawa (barony of Skraeling Althing,
Ealdormere) there is a common modern fried bread thing called "beaver
tails" which are really good with lemon and sugar when skating on the
canal, but the real thing was quite different!

Yours,

Katherine

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