[Sca-cooks] nibbles

[Stefan li Rous]

Lonnie asked:
> I am looking for references to savory nibbling, not the sweet kind. In
> general, I am interested in most times and locales within the SCA 
> period
> and scope. Specifically, I am interested in the European and English
> courts of the 15th century.

Here are some messages I saved for a p-snacks-msg file, but I've not 
created that file yet. Perhaps with some additional info from this 
thread I will have enough to be worth creating a file.

Stefan

> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:54:04 -0400
> From: renfrow at skylands.net (Cindy Renfrow)
> Subject: Re: SC - period snack foods? (was corn chips)
>
> >Are there any medieval recipes or evidence for anything like our 
> modern
> >snack foods? You know, fried dough, lots of grease, salt and 
> flavorings? Or
> >is this just a late 20th century thing?
> <snip>
> >
> >Stefan li Rous
>
> Hello!  The recipes for Cruste Rolle (Harleian MS. 279 - Leche Vyaundez
> #61), Lesenges Fries (Harl. 4016 #134) are for fried dough chips.  The
> recipes for Bryndons (Harl. 279 - Potage Dyvers #49) and Prenade (Harl.
> 4016 #110) call for fried dough chips to be served with a spicy 
> chutney.
>
> Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
> renfrow at skylands.net
> Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 
> 15th
> Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
> Recipes"
>
>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:13:16 -0500
> From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
> Subject: RE: SC - period snack foods? (was corn chips)
>
> The two come closest in mistembecs, where the batter is deep fried and
> served with syrup.  A mistembec is made from yeast leavened dough and, 
> to my
> eye, has a lot in common with home-made doughnuts.  Funnel cakes also 
> come
> to mind.
>
> Bear
>
>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:50:42 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Snacks
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Zachary Kessin wrote:
> > Snacks.
> >
> > Ok our new (and yet unnamed) shire is holding a movie night tomorow,
> > does anyone have any good ideas for period snacks to serve while we
> > watch movies? (Simple and cheap would be good)
> >
> > --Zach
>
> There are all sorts of fried things that are period.
>
> You can put pretty much anything in fritters, then there are cryspes,
> pipefarces, and a few other things. Start here:
>
> http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/desserts.html#27
>
> Then there is hais and also gingerbrede, which are up at the top of 
> that
> page. Both are very quick and very good, and pareve if you use oil for
> the hais instead of butter.
>
> Margaret
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