[Sca-cooks] Almond Jello (was Period Foods: How to Fake It!)
Robin Carroll-Mann
rcmann4 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 4 13:17:26 PST 2003
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From: Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
The only "faking" that I recall doing was as a
banquet joke. I was doing a Viking banquet when
Selene jokingly suggested that we include
lutefisk. Knowing that few would eat real
lutefisk, I made modern almond jello in
fish-shaped molds and served it as "lutefisk".
Those who actually tried the dish got the joke.
And I never passed off almond jello as period.
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Oddly enough, I recently came across a period German recipe that one might call almond jello. It's a gelatin dish made with almond milk and isinglass, and is supposed to be solid enough that one can cut it into cubes. (Isinglass, for those who don't know, is a form of gelatin made from the swimbladders of certain fish. Modern gelatin -- including Jello -- is made from the bones and hides of cows and pigs.)
However, almond Jello would certainly not be period for a Viking feast.
Brighid ni Chiarain
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