potatoes and personal "issues" ; )....was RE: [Sca-cooks] suggestions

Terry Decker t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Thu May 18 20:43:35 PDT 2006


I find Gerard a little iffy.  White potatoes don't show up in Northern 
Europe until 1586-87.  Sweet potatoes, on the otherhand, could have been 
introduced into England as early as 1509 or as late as 1570.  Hawkins writes 
about eating them in the Caribbean in 1563 and it is very possible that he 
introduced them into England 10 years earlier from his raids on the 
Portuguese slave trade.

If you really wanted to play with white potatoes at a feast, I'd go very 
late German, using Rumpolt's recipes for turkey and erdapfel (which I would 
translate as a New World round shaped squash) and the recipe I posted a 
little bit ago for white potaotes.  Maybe a little Rotkohl.

Bear


> *what I had stated under "suggestions",
> "Potatoes are late period (meaning SCA period) in specific areas (not
> everyone knew of them) with only one source to my knowledge of reference 
> to
> how they were cooked (my source is John Gerard) but no recipes to date."
>
> Lyse





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