[Sca-cooks] Siege Cookery at Talonvale: The Premise and Ingredien ts

[Harris Mark.S-rsve60]

Iasmin gave the list of food items available in her recent siege cookery contest:
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With that, the teams were left to choose pre-measured amounts of 
ingredients from a list they were given. The list was:
 
-- Grains (up to 2): oats, millet, saracen corn & rye mix.
-- Meat (up to 2): goat meat, goat bones.
-- Dairy (up to 3): cheese [it was Asiago I think], buttermilk, 2 goose 
eggs.
-- Vegetables (up to 4): carrots, rutabagas, mushrooms, dried lentils, 
onions, garlic, cabbage [red or green], parsnip.
-- Liquids (up to 2): cider vinegar, beef fat. Note: as much water 
could be used as they liked.
-- Fruits (Mulberries, plus 1): white currants, gooseberries.
-- Spices (up to 7): white sage, fennel seed, coltsfoot, cinnamon 
chips, rosemary, cumin, nutmeg nut, juniper berries, parsley, star 
anise, yeast, sugar cone, celery seed, nettle, salt, anise seed.
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Wow. Not a wide variety, especially for the meat. It will be interesting to see what folks came up with. Hope they liked goat. :-)

What is "saracen corn"?

Thanks,
   Stefan