[Sca-cooks] lent, wine, indulgences, de Nola

[Kathleen A. Roberts]

how about how the medieval mind looked at raw vegetables, and herbs being a 
salad in period?   kinda springy...

cailte

--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:48 PM -0500 Kirrily Robert 
<skud at infotrope.net> wrote:

> OK, I settled for saying something like "serve this with a nice white
> wine - don't worry about drinking wine during Lent, in the middle ages
> it wasn't restricted" (roughly speaking).  Thanks everyone for your
> help!
>
> So now I'm wondering what to write about next month.  Each month I try
> to do 1-2 recipes, from sources dated before 1550, and which are
> appealling to the modern palate and look good in a photo.  I try to find
> an interesting theme/subject for the dishes, and include a bunch of
> background information in the article.  Last month I talked about citrus
> fruits in period, this month (for March's issue) I talked about Lent.
> I'd like to do stuff that's seasonal where possible, but more general
> themes are fine too.
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions?  The only ones I've come up with so
> far are one talking about humours, and one talking about campfire
> cooking (to be published sometime in the summer).
>
> Yours,
>
> Katherine
>
>
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