[Sca-cooks] "Banned Foods" sortof still is: "Kingdom" NationalDishes

[Terry Decker]

From: "Chris Stanifer" <jugglethis at yahoo.com>

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> --- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
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>> But would not adhering to period foods ban steel-cut oatmeal? The
>> process of producing steel-cut oats is postperiod.
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> I would think so, but I can't seem to find a history on the steel-cut oat, 
> or who invented the process...

Like roller milling, steel cutting is a 19th Century milling process using 
steel discs to cut grain into fairly uniform pieces.  McCann's is noted for 
their steel cut oats and started taking prizes for them around 1851. 
Information on the history of the process is hard to come by.

Bear