[Sca-cooks] Food in "Cries of London", was medieval fast food

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach vicki shaw:
>I am humbled, Milord!  'Tis more than once I have thought I do not belong on
>this list, for by comparison with most of you, I am little better than a
>scullion and have recently questioned how much I really have to offer.  I
>laugh at my own presumption for I thought I was a cook!  Ha!  How much I
>have learned both about my own limitations - which are legion - and from you
>all.
>
>I felt I had to say this, really.  I ask only that you let this little
>temperamental fit slip by quietly with no fuss at all.  I thank you for the
>honor of being allowed to participate and for the free education I am
>getting.
>
>Vicki (not Angharad here, but Vicki)

Narf! Having read through this thread to its [current] end and fairly 
sure I know what it's all about, and having settled in my mind why 
Mistress Christianna was being called "milord" ;-), I have only a few 
things to add.

Nobody knows everything. For every time we are shocked because 
so-and-so knows such-and-such an obscure thing, there are a million 
other things that that person doesn't know. Our only hope to know 
more (and this is an ongoing and never-really-achieved goal), is 
through community and the exchange of ideas, and we all learn from 
each other as part of the group.

That, and some of the people on this list have some _really_ 
interesting backgrounds... ;-) Including you, it seems.

Adamantius

>
>
>
>>  There's an article in at least some editions of the Larousse
>>  Gastronomique about the Street Cries of Paris (and the vendors
>>  performing same). <snip>
>>
>>  Adamantius
>>
>>  Many composers wrote 'Cries', including Orlando Gibbons and (maybe) Thomas
>>  Morely. Here is the text from one such 'Cries of London':
>>
>>  God give you good morrow my master, past three o'clock and a fair
>>  morning. New mussels, new lily white mussels. Hot codlings [cooking
>apples],
>>  hot. New cockles, new great cockles. New great sprats, new. New fresh
>>  herrings. New haddocks, new. Now thornbacks new. Hot apple pies, hot. Hot
>>  pippin pies, hot. Fine pomegranates, fine. Hot mutton pies hot. Ha' ye any
>>  old bellows or trays to mend? Rosemary and bays, quick and gentle. Ripe
>>  chestnuts, ripe. Ripe smallnuts, ripe. White cabbage, white young cabbage,
>>  white. White turnips, white young turnips, white. . . parsnips. . .
>lettuce.
>>  . . Buy any ink, will you buy any ink, very fine writing ink, will you buy
>>  any ink? Ha' ye any rats or mice to kill? I ha' ripe peascods, ripe.
>>  Oysters, oysters, oysters, threepence a peck at Bridewell dock, new
>>  Wallfleet oysters. Oyez! If any man or woman can tell any tidings of a
>grey
>>  mare, with a long mane and a short tail, she halts [limps] down right
>>  before, and is stark lame behind, and was lost this thirtieth day of
>>  February. He that can tell any tidings of her, let him come to the Crier,
>>  and he shall have well for his hire. Ripe damsons, ripe fine damsons. Hard
>>  garlic, hard. Will ye buy any aqua vitae, mistress? I have ripe
>>  goose-berries, ripe. Buy a barrel of Samphire. What is't ye lack? Fine
>>  wrought shirts or smocks. Perfumed waistcoats, fine bone lace or edgings,
>>  sweet gloves, silk garters, very fine silk garters, fine combs or glasses.
>>  Or a poking stick with a silver handle. Old doublets, ha'ye any old
>>  doublets? Ha' ye any corns on your feet or toes? Fine potatoes, fine. Will
>>  ye buy any starch for a clear complexion, mistress? Poor naked bedlam,
>Tom's
>>  a-cold, a small cut of thy bacon or a piece of thy sow's side, good Bess.
>>  God Almighty bless thy wits. Quick [live], periwinckles, quick, quick,
>>  quick. Buy a new almanac. Buy a fine washing ball. Buy any small coal?
>Good
>>  gracious people, for the Lord's sake, pity the poor women, we lie cold and
>>  comfortless night and day on the cold boards in the dark dungeon in great
>>  misery. Hot oat cakes. Lanthorn and candlelight, hang out maids for all
>>  night.
>  > And so we make an end.
>>
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