[Sca-cooks] Period Foods: How to Fake It!

[Cera Chonaill]

Yes exactly, just with more period recipes that with simple substitution 
will make it easy for them to make, keep and transport. Such as instead of 
buying the bread already baked ask for the ready to bake version and do the 
rest yourself. With the non baked version you can use it for recipes that 
have you making the bread and stuffing it with something. This way the non 
cook doesn't have to learn how to bake bread for an otherwise simple recipe. 
(I have to admit I'm still doing this sometimes as my attempts at bread 
making still turn out mostly flat.)

Since I try to make things as period as possible that I forget sometimes 
that it isn't always as simple as it looks with even easier period recipes 
from a non cooks perspective. I'm trying to get them into the kitchen to 
start with simple attempts using more readly available substitutions such as 
the pie shell to make a savory pie that calls for a coffin. This will give 
them the feel/look of a period lunch table. While there are lots of recipes 
out there I would like to know what you've actually tried using a simple 
substitution to make it easier to make that would be good for a non cook to 
start with.

.... Once I get them into the kitchen lookout .... I'll convert the lot of 
them in happy cooks .... ok, so one can dream :-)

Cera



>From: "Kathleen A. Roberts" <karobert at unm.edu>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Period Foods: How to Fake It!
>Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:45:31 -0700
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>--On Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:40 PM -0500 Cera Chonaill 
><cera_chonaill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>how the food looks... like a plate of lunch meat and cheese... don't used 
>sliced cheese, but slice it yourself from the block?   stick with naturally 
>shaped meats, rather than the square?
>take the mustard out of the grey poopees jar and put it in a dish.   bakery 
>loaf bread rather than wonder bread?  whole pickles or cut them yourself?
>
>those kind of ideas?
>
>cailte
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