[Sca-cooks] (LONG!) Dragon Dormant Baronial Investiture

[Daniel Myers]

On Mar 12, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Petru commented:
>> I was way under-budget. The feast actually cost slightly over 1400$, 
>> so about 7$
>> canadian per head. Bulk-shopping does wonder to a budget! :-)) (and 
>> quite
>> frankly, we'll need the money to pay for all the regalia!!!). Still, 
>> had I
>> known, I would have added more game to the pies, and maybe prepared 
>> another
>> fancy dish just for the fun of it. (Turtle soup, anyone? :-))
> Medieval turtle soup? Recipe?
>
> Where would you get the right turtles? I guess, like one of our recent 
> cooks did for quail (or some such), you could raise them. :-) But I 
> suspect that would take a while.

I couldn't find any recipes off hand, but I did notice earlier this 
week that there are turtles in two of the period paintings of fish 
sellers.

Fishmongers, Vincenzo Campi (1580s)
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/campi/vincenzo/4fishmon.html

The Fishmonger's Shop, Bartolomeo Passerotti (1580s)
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/p/passerot/fishmong.html

- Doc


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