[Sca-cooks] Spices and the Irish Common folk

[Johnna Holloway]

Mistress Kiri forgot to mention that Peter Brear's All The King's Cooks
has material in it on salt beef. He mentions Andrew Boorde
and Tusser as sources among others. Two recipes for Dry
Salt or Corned Beef  and Wet Salt Beef are included. See
pages 56-57.

Johnnae

Elaine Koogler wrote: Except, according to Peter Brears ("10,000 Years 
of British Cooking", "All the King's Cooks") and Madge Lorwin ("Dining 
with William Shakespeare") at the Yule season, when pork brawn was 
served as a celebratory dish for the Christmas feast.  Brears even has 
pictures of the cooks at Hampton Court recreating the dish at the 
Christmas celebrations there.  It's a wonderful dish...I've served it at 
a couple of late period feasts and it was consumed with great glee by 
the attendees.

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