[Sca-cooks] corn

[johnna holloway]

There is a full run-down in the Florilegium--

You can Google and find them by searching
corn maize sca recipes medieval. There's also
like 81 entries under maize corn.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/maize-msg.html

www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/food2-msg.html

www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/maize-msg.html

See also:

www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/ cooking_from_primary_sources.html


Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway



"Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:>
> >From Gerard's Herball, 1633 ed.:
> > Maize - pages 81-83.>
> "Frumentum Indicum. Turky Wheat.
> ...Turky wheat doth nourish far lesse than either wheat, rie, barley, or
> otes. The bread which is made thereof is meanly white, without
> bran: it is hard and dry as Bisket is, and hath in it no clamminesse at
> all; for which cause it is of hard digestion, and yeeldeth to the body
> little or no nourishment... a more conuenient food for swine than for men."
> > HTH,> Cindy
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> ><snip>
> >
> >Can anyone confirm or deny? If corn was known in period, how was it used
> >and are there any recipes?
> >
> >Giles