[Sca-cooks] Question

[Johnna Holloway]

Here's another chicken with dates or prunes--
and citrus fruits. No apples.

To boile a Capon with Orenges and Lemmons.
Take Orenges or Lemmons pilled, and cutte them the long way, and if you can keepe
your cloves whole and put them into your best broth of Mutton or Capon with prunes or
currants and three or fowre dates, and when these have beene well sodden put whole
pepper great mace, a good piece of suger, some rose water, and eyther white or claret
Wine, and let al these seeth together a while, & so serve it upon soppes with your
capon.
Thomas Dawson. The Good Huswifes Jewell. 1596. p. 5r.

> 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
>