[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[kattratt]

Uhmmm ok sorry if I am reading wrong here but aren't some pottages 
basicaly stew like?  I mean add a bit more liquid and it is a cream of 
whatever soup.... from what I read in De Nola, Pottage seems to mean 
moosh the hell out of it!!!
The gist of the recipes were like this ... (Warning the following is a 
Nichola translation and not a period reference...)
Pottage of beef... Take cow meat, cut it into pieces, toss it into 
boiling water and make stock.  Take out beef and pulverize... put some 
onion in pot, add some other veggies.... (On Lent day use fish not beef) 
;) Remove veggies and pulverise... add veggies and smushed beef back 
into pot.  To finish sprinkle on cinnamon and maybe sugar.
The End.  
(We now return you to your Nichola Free World.)  

Madylyne Sparkes wrote:

>
>> There are plenty of rich filling soup-type things in the medieval 
>> recipes,
>> but nothign that equates to modern stew with meat, onions, and root 
>> vegetables
>> such as carrots and potatos.  Lots with meat onions, wine or vinegar, 
>> and dried
>> fruit, though, and they are yummy!
>
>
> This lack of stews in period has stumped me recently...  I'm doing my 
> third kitchen
> this coming weekend and was specifically asked to do stews.  The event is
> An Tir's Kingdom Bardic Championship, and the hosting group (the 
> Barony of Lions Gate)
> is doing a potluck on Saturday evening, with the barony providing 2 
> main dishes - a
> meat stew and a vegetarian one.
>
> Because I'm stubborn and don't want to be doing non-medieval food at 
> an event,
> especially at a Kingdom event, I'm going with "plausibly period", and 
> making up
> my own recipe, based on what I know about what ingredients were 
> available and
> the types of stuff medieval people liked.
>
> For the meat stew, I am doing a dish which is mainly beef, barley, 
> onions and mushrooms
> in a beef broth.  What kinds of spices would people suggest to go with 
> this?
>
> For the veggie option, I am still a little stumped.  I am going to do 
> something which is
> primarily root veggies (carrots, turnips, parsnips) with some sort of 
> lentils (which I'm not
> sure if they're period or not, but I'm just really stumped and on a 
> REALLY tight budget), and
> probably orzo pasta, in a vegetable broth.  If anyone has any 
> suggestions on this one,
> it would be appreciated.  I don't do much vegetarian cooking even at 
> home.
>
> Madylyne
>
>
>
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> Mistress of Arts for the Barony of Lions Gate
> Barony of Lions Gate, Principality of Tir Righ, Kingdom of An Tir
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