[Sca-cooks] a food question(no really!)

[Terry Decker]

No recipes for rye bread.

It is discussed in Koge Bog (IIRC) which is very early 17th Century Danish.
That discussion is probably in the Florilegium.  And it was being used in
Poland from at least the 14th Century.  It appears to have been primarily
raised around the Baltic.

You will find a lot of texts placing the beginnings of rye cultivation
fairly late about 3,000 to 5,000 years ago and that it was a weed which
developed into a grain.  Unfortunately for this argument, rye seeds
displaying characteristics of modern cultivated rye have been found in a
Neolithic hunter/gatherer site at Abu Herrara (sic?), suggesting that
accidental selection of these characteristics by casual cultivation was
already occurring 10,000 years ago.

Bear


>Why not rye in period? For that matter, where and when?
>
>Margaret