[Sca-cooks] what's wierd-ish, what isn't
Sue Clemenger
mooncat at in-tch.com
Wed Nov 10 05:12:24 PST 2004
Don't forget mincemeat pies! (oh, yeah, you mentioned those! duh, maire!)
People are so weird, all on their own!
--maire, who's more likely to be personally weirded out by things like
boiled lettuce <<shudder>>
Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> 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?
>
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