[Sca-cooks] My Christmas dinner & LOOT

[caointiarn]

Beef log = Summer Sausage/Thuringer type thing ,,,,

Morgan the lurker (from Caointiarn's machine)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] My Christmas dinner & LOOT


> Also sprach caointiarn:
> >crackers & beef log
>
> qu'est-ce que c'est beef log? A sausage?
>
> >     The LOOT is way cool!  A set of Henkels!!! :) :) :)  Chef, paring,
> >carving set & cleaveer with sharpening blade (is that the right term?)  A
> >Rolpat, and two bread books: _The Bread Bible_  & _Crust & Crumb_.  Also
> >some strange foodie items, like Galanga Powder,   product of Thailand,
(is
> >this galingale?)
>
> Probably. Looks like ground ginger, smells like ginger mixed with
> eucalyptus? That'd probably be the white, or greater (I think the
> white kind is the greater) galangale, also known as (I think) laos.
> The other is red/lesser/kencur. Or some other recombination of
> terms... but medieval Europeans used both kinds and called both
> galingale.
>
> Adamantius
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