[Sca-cooks] Menagier and stuff was Charcuterie

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Working from my own memory:  cracklings show up early in Platina, within 
the first dozen or so recipes.  The same recipe, which says you can do 
the same with chicken skin, is my period documentation for grebenes.

Selene

> It was said----
>
> "CAVEAT: I AM WORKING ENTIRELY FROM A RATHER FALLIBLE MEMORY!!!
>
> We need a manuscript geek (possibly from the Midrealm? ;-)  ) to 
> verify this, but I have a vague memory of hearing somewhere, being 
> told, or having a note slipped under my door at midnight, about 
> rillettes in period France. Possibly in Le Menagier, the English 
> translation of which I have on hand (Powers -- but don't, in fact, 
> which is why I'm working from memory) makes references to cracklings."
>