[Sca-cooks] Which ingredients to avoid? [Was: Rue Substitute?]

[Susan Fox-Davis]

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>>The Middle Kingdom MOAS A&S judging criteria include a list of herbs
>>that are verboten for edible entries. It's here:
>>http://www.midrealm.org/moas/criteria/proscribed.html
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>>Margaret FitzWilliam
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>William:  
>Well...THAT'S a good start :)  No marijuana, though???  Well, there goes my "Blancmange a'la
>Cheech y Chong" entry....
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>Still, it seems there are no restrictions for my "Corned Beef Hashish" recipe...
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Smarty.  But anything with "hempseed" in it is out as well, even thought 
there is no "active ingredient"  in the seeds even in the THC-bearing 
strains. Hempseed appears at various times within the medieval cookery 
corpus.   Cannabis leaf or resin in food mostly makes it taste bad... I 
can find you the actual Alice B. Toklas hash brownie recipe if you like. 
 Her instructions have you simmering the hashish resin in the butter, 
capturing the oil-soluble compounds, straining it and then using butter 
in a brownie recipe as usual.  I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS but I can see how 
it would work on a theoretical level.

I don't have much to argue about amongst the rest of the list, several 
of which are New World and have no business in a SCA cooking contest 
entry anyway [American Elder, etc.]

Selene