[Sca-cooks] Preserved Foods

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

My sweetie's grandparents in CA have an olive tree, and according to him
what they do is bash the ripe olives to split them and then bury them in
salt for a while.

Margaret

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, vicki shaw wrote:

> I am very interested to know how period pickles were prepared.  I love all
> things pickled and have always got some jars going.  Tonight I have been
> munching on pickled daikon radish.  I got my pickling spice from my local
> Indo-Pakistani shop and it has many more interesting things in it and the
> result is very good.  Thanks for that web site, Anahita, I am going to look
> into it.
>
> Has anyone ever tried to make olives from scratch?  From the raw fruit.  I
> have, but it is very rare that I see them in the markets.  Anyone know a
> good source of raw olives fresh off the tree?
>
> Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
> Barony Beyond the Mountain
> East Kingdom
> vhsjvs at gis.net
>
>
> > Olwen wrote:
> > >  >One - in the fall - will be for Preserved Foods.
>
> I would be interested in that Olwen.  Let me know when the time gets closer.
> > >  >
> > >  >I'm thinking of mustards, compost, pickles, jams, and such.
> > >  >
> > >  >I am not looking for specific recipes or sources, although those are
> nice,
> > >  >but i would like to know what other sorts of preserved foods are
> period.
> > >  >I'm sure the above only scratches the surface...
> > >  >
> > >  >Thanks,
> > >  >Anahita
> > >
> > >Beets.  Somewhere or other I found a really nice period recipe for
> pickled
> > >beets which called for also adding caraway seeds.
> >
> > Actually, i made a whole mess of pickled vegetable for the German
> > Boar Hunt Feast i prepared in 2001
> >
> > -- Beets marinated with horseradish, red wine, cider vinegar,
> > coriander, caraway, anise - Marx Rumpolt
> > -- Cucumbers fresh pickled in white vinegar, honey, anise, caraway,
> > pepper, saffron, mustard - Ein Buch von Guter Spise, 14th c.
> > -- Red Cabbage marinated in red wine vinegar, honey, caraway, anise,
> > pepper - Ein Buch von Guter Spise
> > -- Button Mushrooms pickled in white wine vinegar, whole peppercorns,
> > cloves, nutmeg, mace, bay leaves, fresh ginger - Lady Elinor
> > Fettiplace and Sir Kenelm Digbie, because I couldn't find a German
> > recipe for pickled mushrooms.
> >
> > All the recipes i used, plus the original sources are on my website -
> > i don't remember if i posted them to this list.
> > http://witch.drak.net/lilinah/2001Menu.html
> >
> > Anahita
> >
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