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

[Sue Clemenger]

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?
>