[Sca-cooks] Looking for a Beef and Barley Soup Recipe

[Lisa]

Stefan, I honestly don't remember who the cooks were, although I do believe
the oatmeal honey bread was named that more for the oatmeal and honey
topping it.  The Beef and Barley soup was served at the final Mead Bees
event, and the Oatmeal Honey bread was served at the final Margrave, a
little over a year ago if I remember the dates right.  As for my problem
with the Florilegium, it does have more to do with seeing things that look
interesting and being distracted until I forget what I originally went there
looking for lol.

Lady Elizabeta of Rundel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Looking for a Beef and Barley Soup Recipe


> Lisa declared:
> > LOL I get lost every time I try to search something in the Florigelium.
> I'm sorry. Is there something I could do to make it easier for you to
> use?
>
> I have heard folks complain they get lost because they get distracted
> and keep finding other things to look for and forget what they were
> originally going after. Sorry, *that* I can't do much about. :-)
>
> One way to find things in the Florilegium if you don't know which file
> to look in first is to use the search engine available on the top page
> of the Florilegium. For instance, putting in "beef", "barley" and
> "soup"  gets you 150 hits. Some of these are duplicates because of the
> different file formats but one at least of these is the soup-msg file
> that Mairie mentioned and several feast menus where this soup was
> served. Unfortunately, you are likely to find this soup as a number of
> variations, so figuring out which one was the one you were served is a
> bit problematic. Writing the headcook for the feast you ate would be
> another option.
>
> For the bread, be aware that there are only about half a dozen
> surviving medieval bread recipes. Most of which you can find in the
> Florilegium. :-) So most of the breads such as the one you enjoyed are
> going to be recreations and guesses of what might have been served in
> medieval times. Personally, I don't think you would have found an
> oatmeal bread served at a high society medieval feast, since there
> seems to have been much social value put on *white* *wheat* bread. Just
> like in the US in the 60s. Sigh.
>
> Again, the search engine on the Florilegium turned up a hundred hits
> when I searched for this bread.
>
> Those two meal items sound familiar. You did mention that this was an
> Ansteorran feast. Would this perhaps have been one at a Bryn Gwlad
> event? If so, that narrows it down to just a few possible cooks. I
> could ask about these recipes locally if this is the case.
>
> Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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