[Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...

[el2iot2 at mail.com]

Do not literary sources ,by need, be taken with a grain of salt?  

Young Dodger from Oliver Twist is hardly a proper representation of Victorian England as a whole. 

It is usually the extremes of society that are written.  Why write down what everyone knows?  

How bad is your life when you must live through some others mundane existance<like Reality TV>.  Sorry about the TV flame, pet peeve.

Joy
Radei 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Rotten meat and spices...
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:47:53 -0400

> 
> Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I think our preoccupation with meat is in part due to 
> > our own habits of meat consumption (in general- quite a bit) and 
> > for us in particular, the fact that the extant menus and recipes 
> > are basically those of the upper classes, which ate more meat. If 
> > Matilda, John the Farmer's wife had written down her recipes and 
> > menus, we might see a very different picture.
> 
> FWIW, here's Chaucer's description of the diet of a poor widow:
> 
> Three large sows had she, and no more, 'tis plain,
> Three cows and a lone sheep that she called Moll.
> Right sooty was her bedroom and her hall,
> Wherein she'd eaten many a slender meal.
> Of sharp sauce, why she needed no great deal,
> For dainty morsel never passed her throat;
> Her diet well accorded with her coat.
> Repletion never made this woman sick;
> A temperate diet was her whole physic,
> And exercise, and her heart's sustenance.
> The gout, it hindered her nowise to dance,
> Nor apoplexy spun within her head;
> And no wine drank she, either white or red;
> Her board was mostly garnished, white and black,
> With milk and brown bread, whereof she'd no lack,
> Broiled bacon and sometimes an egg or two,
> For a small dairy business did she do.
> 
> Canterbury Tales, "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
> (modern English translation, translator unidentified )
> 
> -- Brighid ni Chiarain
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net
> 
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joy

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