Fish for breakfast (was Re: [Sca-cooks] Beverages)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 28 Sep 2003, at 9:42, DeeWolff at aol.com wrote:

> Now, I am a late period Scot/French woman married to a late period Dutchman. We
> eat the appropriate foods- Breakfast is Fish (herring), brown bread   rusks, and
> good cheese. We follow up with a good stout beer (small amounts). Lunch is
> leftover breakfast food and the addition of a starch and often apples or grapes.
> Dinner is a meat (the Dutch like pork and fish), and starchy product (barley)
> and vegetables or fruits.
> 
> While, it takes some getting used to and the modern tastebuds rebel at fish in
> the morning, it IS what they ate and it is appropriate to us so that we can
> maintain our "medieval flair". 

Not all modern tastebuds.  I have often enjoyed a mundane Sunday breakfast 
that included smoked salmon, whitefish, and picked herring (in wine sauce or 
cream sauce).  Herring and cheese sound good to me.  However, I hate beer.


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