[Sca-cooks] FW: Turkish Recipe

[Terry Decker]

Interesting green peppers, hot peppers and tomatoes are all of New World 
origin, so this is likely a dish that was modified by the adoption of new 
foodstuffs.

Rumi was a Persian Sufi.  I don't know where my translation of his work is 
right now, but I'll look for it.  It might be interesting to reference the 
recent work on Medieval Arabic cooking to see if it has anything to say 
about tomato nomenclature.

To my knowledge, Krakatoa didn't erupt in 1334.  It's big one was in 1883. 
Kelut and Vesuvius presumably went bang, so the cataclysmic event listed is 
probably a local cataclysm in Indonesia caused by Kelut.

Bear

> Ok, he finally sent something that has some sort of documentation with it.
> I'm a bit out of my element with the Middle Eastern cuisine (although I'll
> eat a chick pea if it turns out tomatoes were known in 14th century 
> Turkey).
> Anyone want to comment on this?
> Christianna
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Kinjal of Moravia
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 5:21 PM
> To: kingstaste at mindspring.com
> Subject: Turkish Recipe
>
>
> Thsi documentation was considered suffient and noteworthy for an
> 13th century period cooking competition in the Principality of
> Cynagua, 2003.  The URL's are on my brothers computer in Sacramento,
> CA but I can attempt to get them
> .........................................................
>
> 13th Century Cooking (Turkish)
>
> DISH:   Tϋrkçe Pazar Salat  (Turkish Sunday Salad)
>
> Period:  2000 BC to 1340 AD  - greatest family shopping use was
> 1060 - 1330 AD (Seljuk period).  The true dish could not be made
> after 1340 AD.
>
> Notes:  Families in the 13th Century went to the bazaar on the
> seventh day (non-work) for shopping, games and socialization.  They
> typically took a cold mixed vegetable salad.  Other items like
> şış
> kebab, şış köfte, dolma (stuffed meat pies), etc. were
> purchased at
> the bazaar.  Salad was often carried in a gourd wrapped in an
> evaporative cooling cloth.
>
>
> Ingredients:  rice, cici peas, grass seeds, tomatoes (seeded),
> squash, green pepper, onion, nuts*, dill weed, ripe olives, green
> olives.
>
> *the common nut was a type of long, skinny pine-nut (yeni
> fıştıc)
> that died out during the dark famines of 1335-1343 AD.  I have
> substituted slivered almonds.
>
> Dressing:  scant olive oil, marinated vinegar
> (hot peppers, garlic, rosemary - try some on your finger-tip)
>
> Eating:  spoon, or gathered in a grape leaf (yaprak)
>
> Taken from the bowl with a phrase - ellınez Saĝlık   (may
> your hands
> be blessed)
>     (Ell-en-ez  saw-aw-lick)
>
> This recipe was prepared and given to me in 1968 by a Turkish
> Language Professor, together with much verbal history.  I have
> documented several parts of the story of origin, use and
> ingredients.  The Turkish saying "Never mind what you ate and drank,
> tell me where you have been and what you have seen", shows it was
> considered bad manners to talk about food and this is why there is
> little culinary literature in Turkish, though it is considered one
> of three great cuisines of the world.  Poems which contained recipes
> were passed down verbatim for thousands of years.
>
> Items about eating habits and picnic practices are found in Divanu
> Lugat-i Turk, a dictionary compiled by Kasgarli Mahmut in 1072-1073
> to teach Turkish to the Arabs.
>
> The use of cold rice dishes with tomatoes, and the use of all the
> listed ingredients, is documented in the literary works of Mevlana
> Jalaluddin Rumi, a philosopher who lived in the 13th century.
>
> The idea of taking part of a meal to a bazaar and purchasing the
> rest on-site is referenced in stories in Dede Korkut Hikayeleri (The
> Tales of Dede Korkut) compiled towards the end of the 14th century.
>
> The mysterious nut called Yeni Fıştıc (new nut) is used in
> many
> recipes in Kutadgu Bilig (The Book of Knowledge), by Yusuf Has Hacip
> in the 11th century.  The dark famine has now been attributed to a
> volcanic eruption (Krakatoa) in 1334 that blanketed the earth with
> ash and destroyed hundreds of plant types.
>
>
>
>
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