[Sca-cooks] Some new questions for an upcoming feast

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 20 Jul 2004, at 21:42, kattratt wrote:

> Did they eat vegetables raw in period?  (I know that greens were eaten 
> raw as we have Salat... but I am thinking about the vegetables that we 
> now eat raw... gourds, carrots, whatevers....)

The "Arte de Cortar", a 1423 Spanish carving manual, gives instructions for 
cutting carrots that are going to be eaten raw.  The carrot is peeled and 
trimmed, then cut into quarters, lengthwise.  If it's thick, the woody part of 
the core is removed.  If the carrot is long, the quarters are cut into shorter 
pieces.  Ie., your basic carrot sticks.  It says that parsnips and small, tender 
turnips can be cut in the same fashion.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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