[Sca-cooks] Roman Banquet Menu

[Stefan li Rous]

Celia asked:
>   This sounds wonderful, m'Lady!  You mentioned making liquamen.  I 
> apologize
> if I missed it earlier, but would you share with us how you made
> liquamen?

Christianna may have more on exactly what recipe she used, but you 
might also find some of the information in this Florilegium file in the 
FOOD-CONDIMENTS section of the Florilegium to be of interest:
garum-msg        (55K) 8/22/04   Roman fish sauces made from fermented 
fish.
                                      Also includes comments on 
liquamen.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-CONDIMENTS/garum-msg.html

> Also, thanks so much for sharing the recipes and notations, giving 
> those of
> us who are novices to documentation a place to start.  Again, I 
> apologize
> for my ignorance,

Well, I wouldn't worry too much about apologizing. We have folks of all 
cooking levels on this list from folks who are new to cooking, much 
less medieval cooking, to those who have served feasts for hundreds and 
folks that have been or are professional chefs. It's likely there are 
others who can learn from your questions.  And, well, some of us are 
rather known for asking lots of questions. :-)  Some of the questions 
I've asked, thinking they would be simple one sentence or two answers, 
ended up creating quite a discussion and hopefully were educational for 
many.

I'm not sure how large your library of medieval recipe books and books 
about medieval food is, but you might be interested in looking through 
the FOOD-BOOKS section of the Florilegium. There are lots of book 
reviews there and some annotated bibliographies. Here are a pair of 
files I recommend:
books-food-msg  (149K) 1/24/05   Books about food. Not cookbooks.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/books-food-msg.html
cookbooks-bib    (44K) 2/15/04   Cookbook bib. by Mistress Jaelle of 
Armida.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/cookbooks-bib.html

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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