[Sca-cooks] Stuffed creatures & Stuffed bread

[Stefan li Rous]

Mel asked:
> Has anyone come across references to animals/birds stuffed one inside
> the
> other. SCA period or later, I have any I've found in the archieves or
> Stefans files,
> But asking here just incase there are more (I'm sure there are !)
I don't think these phrases given mentioned the various series of 
animals stuffed within a camel. I believe that recipe can be found in 
this file:
meat-stuffed-msg  (24K) 11/29/02    Meat stuffed with various mixtures.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/meat-stuffed-msg.html

And from one of our newly returned members, from this same file in 1998:
> I'm glad to see that somebody has actually tried this.  Here's your
> documentation.  The following appears in the 13th-century Arabo-
> Andalusian _Manuscrito Anonimo_, and is reprinted in Cariadoc's
> Collection, volume II:
>
> Roast Calf, which was made for the Sayyid Abu-L-'Ala in Ceuta
>
> Take a young, plump ram, skinned and cleaned; open it deeply between
> the thighs and carefully take out all the entrails that are in its
> belly.  Then put in the interior a stuffed goose and into its belly a
> stuffed hen and in the belly of the hen a stuffed pigeon and in the
> belly of the pigeon a stuffed thrush and in the belly of this a small
> bird, stuffed or fried, all this stuffed and sprinkled with the sauce
> described for stuffing; sew up this opening and place the ram in a hot
> tannur  and leave it until it is browned and ready; sprinkle it with
> that sauce and then place it in the body cavity of a calf which has
> been prepared clean; sew it up and place it in the hot tannur  and
> leave it until it is done and browned; then take it out and present
> it.
>                                         mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar 
> ha-Shalib
>                                                  Stephen Bloch

> Secondly whilst looking through the archieves I saw a thread regarding
> things stuffed in bread. The Records of medieval Leicester mention 
> chicken
> baked in bread,
Oooh. I'd like to hear more about this. This is one I haven't heard of.
> and I read a french note in a french museum regarding cheese
> baked in bread. I've done this as brie in Brioche several times and it 
> good
> stuff ! The skin of a Full brie keeps the cheese in one piee
I'd like hear more about this as well as seeing your redaction.

There is also this file:
bread-stuffed-msg (29K) 11/16/04    Period stuffed bread. Rastons. 
Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/bread-stuffed-msg.html

Stefan
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