[Sca-cooks] Question

[Johnna Holloway]

I suspect that this might provide the answer--

This is from the Gode Cookery website.
http://www.godecookery.com/friends/frec42.htm

They use prunes and not dates, but otherwise:

Chicken Stuffed with Apples and Prunes
Chicken roasted with apples & prunes - contributed by Rebecca A.C. Smith
1 chicken, split in half lengthwise
2 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
4 oz prunes, sliced in half
salt & pepper
Half of the apples and half of the prunes are placed between the skin and meat of
the chicken breast and thigh area. Season with salt and pepper. Roast 2 hours at
350° F.
Arresty, Esther B; The Delectable Past; Simon and Schuster, New York, 1964. p.
41.
Chicken Stuffed with Apples and Prunes is featured in Feast for Christmas Revel.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway



> Also sprach Amanda Blackwolf:
> >I was told tonight that roasting chicken w/ apples and dates placed under
> >the skin was period.........now, I admit, I don't know much but I can't find
> >anything like it in my very limited library....then again, I'm not quite
> >sure what I should be looking for. Anyone have a source and translation?
> >Since I'm going for a mostly period feast, I want to be able to document
> >stuff.
>

Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:

> I don't recall having heard of it, which may or may not mean
> anything. It's possible your source simply has or saw some source of
> which I'm unaware, or perhaps they have made some leaps of logic.
> snipped There
> may be exceptions (isn't there something with quinces, somewhere?)
> but even so, this would only support the idea that
> apple-date-stuffed-under-the-skin chicken isn't totally
> unprecedented. But that, in itself, doesn't make it period.
>
> The only thing I can suggest, unless somebody here comes up with a
> more specific reference, is that you ask the person who told you this
> if they can provide you with more specific documentation.
>
> Adamantius
>