[Sca-cooks] Almond Jello (was Period Foods: How to Fake It!)

[chirhart_1]

Why yes ! Yes you can . I bought some at Pennsic,and you can get it from the
guild of Limners .

Chirhart  Besides Cooking does Illumination, Calligraphy ,and his own Inks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: "Robin Carroll-Mann , Cooks within the SCA"
<rcmann4 at earthlink.netsca-cooks@ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Almond Jello (was Period Foods: How to Fake It!)


> On 12/4/03 1:17 PM, "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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.
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > 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
>
> OK, no it wasn't, but it was white and gelatinous and much tastier than
> actual Lutefisk.  We did have a few disappointed purists who wanted real
> Lutefisk anyway.  Go please the world.  We threw rice porridge with
> lingonberries at them and they were happy.
>
> Can you get Isinglass anymore, or do I have to go catch the right kind of
> fish for their bladders?  <double icky!>
>
> Selene Colfox