[Sca-cooks] Getting the most use out of a particular food

[Stefan li Rous]

Sharon suggested various ways to save some money when cooking feasts 
and said:
> ***Nonfood***
> Cutting out the bad places in fruits and vegetables and using the 
> throw away
> scraps to make compost.
Ummm. Let me make sure we are understanding exactly what you mean here. 
When you say compost, are you talking about using them in the garden to 
create new soil? Or are you talking about the medieval food, basically 
a pickled fruit/vegetable mix? I think this is similar to modern 
compote. I assume the former of the two definitions. You did say 
"non-food". You want to use fruits and vegetables at their prime for 
the medieval compost and certainly not the bad pieces.
If this medieval compost is new to you, perhaps this file in the FOOD 
section of the Florilegium might be of interest:
compost-msg       (35K)  3/27/01    A pickled food of fruits and 
vegetables.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/compost-msg.html
Stefan
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