[Sca-cooks] what's wierd-ish, what isn't
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at jeffnet.org
Wed Nov 10 02:03:34 PST 2004
At 11:52 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
>I gave a basic medieval cooking class at our adjunct Kingdom University
>this last weekend, and we got into a discussion of precisely this. The
>general feeling in the group was that the weirdest thing about medieval
>cooking was its tendency to combine meat and dried fruit, and particularly
>in the pies. Apparently meat/fruit stews are more familiar from various
>ethnic cuisines, but meat/fruit pies are just _odd_!
Ham/turkey with cranberry sauce? Canadian bacon and Pineapple? Mincemeat?
Just sayin'...
'Lainie
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