[Sca-cooks] Fw: <SCA-Caid> Potrero War/Seige cooking

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Bj Jane Tremaine wrote:

> Ya and it was pretty nasty too.  Not one cook seem to know what to  
> do with it.  Our local supplier of salted cod quit caring it for  
> some reason. O-well no more pickled cod.
>
> Jana

Salted mackerel can be semi-reconstituted and pickled with onion and  
lemon slices (it responds pretty well to acids, since it's an oily  
fish), put in a pie with things like dried fruit (I believe there are  
17th and 18th-century recipes for that), maybe baked in a sauce made  
from fruit. Gooseberries are a fairly common accompaniment, I believe.

Adamantius




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