Not OOP--serving shrimp (was Re: [Sca-cooks] OP: shrimps

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/2/2003 3:57:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com writes:

<<In C. Anne Wilson's  _Food in Britain_, she talks about shrimp being eaten 
in period and that they were served with vinegar. But that's all that she 
says. How would one go about cooking and serving shrimp, for, say, a 13th 
c. feast? Or would this have been considered low-class and not served?>>


No, there are definitely recipes for shrimps, "lopisters", and similar items 
in period recipe manuscripts.  I know there is at least one in Take a Thousand 
Eggs.  They mostly just seem to be "boil and serve with vinegar".  Quite 
tasty, too - I did some for an intro to medieval food class that I did for local 
Girl Scout leaders.

Brangwayna