[Sca-cooks] "Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England"

[Cera Chonaill]

But why would some of these leaps not work. Medical research today has shown
that chicken soup when you have a cold is good for you and has healing
abilities. I for one can say I eat chicken soup throughout the year even
when I'm not sick. Just like many of us add things to our diets today that
are considered medicinally good for us why could they not have done similar
in early period.

I'm researching 12/13th century Irish cooking and have to get references to
food types and uses from references that are not cookbooks (they just don't
seem to exist). It will help to understand why these interpretation from
references such as the medical usage are considered not to be as accurate as
others might be.

Though I must say for camp cooking I like using these recipes just to give
the feel of period cooking (and everyone will eat) over KFC and the like.
Plus, as a diabetic these recipes fit in so well to the food limits.

In Service,

Cera


----- Original Message ----- 
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To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] "Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England"


> One of the main problems that I have is the leaps of logic she makes as to
> what ingredients would be combined.  For example, she takes ingredients
for
> a cough syrup and uses them in a sauce.  Just because the ingredients
> existed, would you pour Robitussin on your chicken?  I agree that the
tables
> of available ingredients are more useful than the recipes, although her
> recipes aren't bad, don't try to enter them into an A&S competition.
> Christianna
>
>
>
> I recently read a review, http://dialup.pcisys.net/~mem/savelli.html, of
> "Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England" by Mary Savelli which basically cuts down
> the book recipes as not being accurate and misleading. While the reviewer
> does say that the table of available items and bibliography are good the
> recipes themselves are not (not referring to taste).
>
> I have tried a number of the recipes and find that they work and taste
good,
> but wonder about the accuracy of the information. Could anyone doing
> Anglo-Saxon cooking research shed some light on the matter.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Cera
>
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