[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[Huette von Ahrens]

I had a discussion some years ago with Dr.
Thomas Gloning about Spaetzle.  I have a modern
German cookbook which quotes another book that
supposedly stated that spaetzle was within SCA
period.  However, he found said source book and
told me that it didn't say anything like that.
He has not found any recipes for spaetzle within
our time frame.  While it is a simple recipe,
at this moment without supporting evidence, 
spaetzle cannot be called a period dish.

Huette

--- Brett McNamara <brettmc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed, baking powder is hardly a requirement. 
> 
> 
> It does make the little cannon balls lighter,
> but then so does beer. 
> As a side question, any reason for yolk in
> particular, rather the
> whole thing?
> 
> If you think about it, a drop dumpling is a
> rather primitive form of
> pasta... oh, wait, spaetzle!  Spaetzle's kind
> of a dumpling pasta
> missing link if ever there was one.  It's
> usually about elbow macaroni
> to gnocchi size, but I recall seeing specimens
> drop dumpling size.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:34:06 -0600, Kathleen A
> Roberts <karobert at unm.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:18:45 -0400
> >   Daniel Myers <edouard at medievalcookery.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > >Considering that drop dumplings use baking
> powder (ca
> > >1800?) for leavening, I'd say that they're
> pretty much
> > >not period.
> > 
> > yes, but if you use beaten egg yolk instead
> of the baking
> > powder.... they are a little chewy, but good.
> > 
> > cailte
> >
>
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> tragedy which
> > sustained him through temporary periods of
> joy."
> > W. B. Yeats
> >
>
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> > University of New Mexico
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> > 
> > 
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