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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