[Sca-cooks] Spices and the Irish Common folk

[Adele de Maisieres]

Tom Vincent wrote:

> I doubt if there is any period documentation about what 14th c. common Irish (or otherwise) folk ate or what spices they had, but I'll commit to the following generalizations:
>    
>   1.  They didn't have any spices.

Quite probably true.

>   2.  They didn't have any beef, corned or otherwise.

More likely they had it very occasionally, rather than never.  After 
all, what do you think happens to an old house-cow?\


>   3.  Beef in the timeperiod wouldn't have been fed corn ('corn', pre-maize, being generic grain), but would have been grass-fed.

What's that got to do with anything?



>   5.  If they had any 'herbs', they would not be considered anything other than another vegetable.


Speculation.


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