[Sca-cooks] Summer is Here

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 28 Jun 2003, at 22:12, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Maire, again.
> I'm wondering (since I'm thinking of the summer/hot weather foods for my
> article) if medieval cooks, when considering the various humoral aspects
> of the foods they were cooking with, had seasonal variations.  Did they,
> for instance, recommend cool/wet things during hot days?

Well, Platina says that in each of the four seasons, the corresponding 
humour is dominant in the body.  Therefore, one ought to adjust one's diet 
from season to season.  I don't know if this principle applies to the daily 
weather.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net