[Sca-cooks] Summer is Here

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 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.

Yes, they did. The sauce book that Terence Scully wrote that article about
in Medium Aevum says to vary sauces depending on the season. There's also
suggestions for alleviating the dangers of certain foods/activities based
on the season or the weather in the Medieval Health Handbook.

[Ok, that's really sketchy and if you want more details I'll look it up
later...]

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