[Sca-cooks] Re: grain in milk dishes

[Elaine Koogler]

Christina L Biles wrote:

>Jadwiga said:
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>>>>Ok, guys, how do you cook grain dishes in milk, as in the millet cooked 
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>in milk Platina suggests?
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>I don't know.  Every time I've tried to cook something milk, be it grains 
>or pears or whatever, the milk separated into curds & whey.  I have a 
>speculation that raw milk may react differently, but I don't have a source 
>for it.
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>>>I am more and more of the opinion that not cooking our grains in broth 
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>is doing people a 
>disservice in the feasthall.
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>It isn't just the grains.  Platina's noodles in broth recipe (Roman 
>Noodles) was just insanely popular at my last feast, and I used plain 
>dried noodles, not even hand made.  It was a cheap and easy filler dish (I 
>thought) to provide a bed for the meat skewers.  I expected most of it to 
>come back.  Instead, we had demands for more, more, more coming back to 
>the kitchen.
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>Now I cook noodles in broth as a side dish at home.  ;>
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>-Magdalena
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>Roman Noodles
>Blend meal which has been separated from chaff with water in the best way. 
>When it has been blended, spread it out on a board and roll it with a 
>rounded and oblong piece of wood such as bakers are accustomed to use in 
>such a trade. Then when it has been drawn out to the width of a finger, 
>cut it. It is so long you would call it a fillet. It ought to be cooked in 
>rich and continually boiling broth, but if, at the same time, it must be 
>cooked in water, put in butter and salt. When it is cooked, it ought to be 
>put in a pan with cheese, butter, sugar, and sweet spices.    
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I used a redaction of this for a feast that I did last spring that came 
from this list...and did use the butter, Parmesan cheese, sugar, nutmeg 
and cinnamon.  We tossed the cooked noodles with the butter, sprinkled 
on the sugar/spice mixture...divided it up among the dishes, then grated 
cheese over it.  It was a great success.  I don't know who did the 
redaction...I asked, but no one 'fessed up!

Kiri