[Sca-cooks] Red Tower Cooking contest

[Stefan li Rous]

Terrain suggested:
> Here is an Ingredient: Fiddle heads, they should be in season for the
> event.
> But they might be expensive in your next for the woods! I'm a New
> Englander.

Huh? What are "Fiddle heads"? I assume these are different from "fish 
heads", but I guess the latter could be considered unusual. Are these a 
vegetable usually found growing wild?

> > i am sponsoring one at grand outlandish memorial day weekend in the
> > barony of al-barran (albq, nm).  i am trying to find unusual
> > ingredients...  the entrants are gonna kill me. 8)
> >
> > cailte

Well, here are a few Florilegium files with suggestions, although there 
may be some debate about whether some of these are really unusual.

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marrow-msg???????(28K)?1/19/03???Getting bone marrow. Recipes with 
marrow.
presrvd-lemons-msg (28K)?2/ 6/04???Dried, pickled and salted preserved 
lemons.
blood-dishes-msg?(27K) 10/20/04???Use of blood in period foods. Recipes.
eels-msg?????????(26K) 10/11/04???Eel dishes. Getting and cleaning eels.
exotic-meats-msg?(79K) 10/13/04???Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans, 
ostrich,
??????????????????????????????????????crawfish, dormice, cat.
frogs-msg????????(16K)?4/18/05???Medieval and period frog recipes. 
Referamces
goat-msg?????????(22K)?4/17/05???Period goat dishes. Cooking goat. 
Recipes.
liver-msg????????(37K)?2/11/02???Medieval cooking of liver. Recipes.
organ-meats-msg??(86K) 10/20/04???Period cooking of organ meats.
snails-msg???????(13K)?8/30/00???Eating of snails in period. Recipes.

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
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****