[Sca-cooks] Pattern welding meets cooking. . .

[Susan Browning]

A little behind the time here.  This is a interesting post, as I am not
Catholic either, but decided to practice a Black Fast for Lent this year.
Two and half weeks to go.  I am not eating a medieval diet, but am not
eating any of the forbidden products.  Basically, I gave up all animal
products, excepting fish.  From my research, it appears that the rules are
different on Sunday during Lent.  It appears that you can have eggs, and
some dairy on the feast days during Lent.  Maybe next year I will do it
again with only products that would have been available in the old world.

Eleanor d'Aubrecicourt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Pattern welding meets cooking. . .


> At 10:13 AM 3/16/2004, you wrote:
> >>Waaaaaaaah!
> >>
> >>I gave up chocolate for Lent, and you guys are making it sooooo hard to
> >>stay on the wagon! Fudge, glorious fudge!... How long till Easter?
> >>
> >>'Lainie
> >
> >Well, i gave up my diet for Lent :-)
> >
> >I must have eaten six different kinds of homemade chocolate sweets that
> >one household had on their snack table at Crown on Sunday - delicate
> >chocolate and nut toffee, chocolate rum truffles, chocolate and creme de
> >menthe patties, little cubes that looked like loukums but were chocolate,
> >dark fudge, there was something else but i'm drawing a blank... along
with
> >pears and pomegranate seeds simmered in a red wine sauce.
>
> All of you are evil beyond description!
>
> By way of explanation, I'm not Catholic, nor am I religious (anymore). But
> I wanted to get a feel for what Lent might have been like for a woman in
> 1404. But I wanted to start small ;-). Perhaps next year I'll try a full
> Lenten diet, which should be interesting since I don't care for fish!
>
> 'Lainie of the Death-Rattle Cough!
>