[Sca-cooks] war food

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

> To change the subject back to food,
>
> Anyone have any tid-bits about the kinds of foods that might be assoicated
> with war in period? Someone (dembinska I think) said that in period Poland
> Tripe was associated with sieges because it preserved easily and was kept
> around pickled.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net

Well, there's Froissart's chronicle of the Scots eating meat and then
making cakes with oat meal and water and baking them on hot stones.
There's more on that in the oatcakes file in the Flori-thingy, I know,
because I have the silly thing printed out.

Margaret