[Sca-cooks] Penguins and potatoes was medieval dog recipes

[Radei Drchevich]

Question:  It was my understanding that Roanoak, was found abandonded
when the governer returned after a 3 year absence during which his
resupply efforts were delayed in England.  Are you saying Roanoak was
rescued?  Or are you referring to Governer<Bradford IIRC>'s resupply
mission?

if the former would you please site your sources, I must needs an
education.

joy

radei

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Terry Decker"
  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] Penguins and potatoes was medieval dog recipes
  Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:29:15 -0600


  The island was actually in the Straits of Magellan. To quote Drake
  (or more probably his nephew, IIRC), "The 24 of August (1578) we
  arrived at an island in the straits (probably Isla Isabel), where
  we found a great store of fowl which could not fly, of the bigness
  of geese, whereof we killed in less than one day 3,000 and
  victualled ourselfs thoroughly therewith." (The famous voyage of
  Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea, and there hence about the
  globe of the earth, begun in the year`of our Lord, 1577., as taken
  from Haklyut)

  I gather from Morison, the accounts of Rev. Francis Fletcher and
  the Potuguese pilot, Nuno da Silva, provide more detailed
  information. Fletcher refers to the birds, "...which the Welch men
  call Pengwin." (Welsh, "pen gwyn" or white head). BTW, the
  primary rookeries are actually on a couple of rocks near Isla
  Isabel, Santa Marta and Santa Magdalena.

  A little later in Drake's account is a passage I find of interest.
  The encounter is on the 29th of Novmber 1578 on an island off the
  coast of Chile. "The people came down to the waterside with show
  of great courtesy, bringing to us potatoes, roots, and two very fat
  sheep..."

  The potato Drake was familiar with was the sweet potato, often
  referred to as the common or Spanish potato. Given the location,
  the roots are very likely to have been white potatoes as Chilean
  potatoes are the root stock for most of the potatoes we use today.
  As pure speculation, the encounter may have set the stage for the
  delivery of "potatoes of Virginia" to John Gerard in 1586. The
  logic is Drake knew the value of white potatoes as food and moved
  stocks of them to his ships when he resupplied after the siege of
  Cartagena. One the return to England, Drake's fleet rescued the
  members of the colony at Roanoke, Virginia, and that potatoes were
  delivered to Gerard and he mistakenly attributed them to Virginia
  rather than Peru. It's one of those fun debates that will probably
  never be settled.

  Bear

  > Drakes men ate Penguins, well within our period while
  > circumnavigatring the globe. They were not in Antartica, they
  > were on South America. You have to get around the cape to do
  > that and that is pretty far down the Southern Hemisphere. It was
  > actually on an island in the vicinity of the cape.
  >
  >
  > Ranald De Balinhard


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