[Sca-cooks] what's wierd-ish, what isn't

[Laura C. Minnick]

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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