[Sca-cooks] Trivia: "Harry Potter And The Conspicuous Medieval Food Reference"

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Hullo, the list!

Okay, so it's that time of year (i.e. Pennsic), when a young man's  
heart turns to thoughts of Twinkies and Mario Nebbits.

So here I am, in the middle of my ambivalent but requisite reading of  
the latest Harry Potter book, when I note that Hermione has just  
referred to a medieval dish (and me caught unawares with all the  
prior references to onion soup and treacle tart). A bottle of good- 
luck potion and fifty points toward the House Cup for whomever can  
tell me what, and under what circumstances, it is.

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04