[Sca-cooks] mongolian meat cakes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:12 PM, hlaislinn at earthlink.net wrote:

> If the mongols had used cheese in medieval meat cakes, wouldn't it  
> have been something like green mare's milk cheese? Something  
> curdled fresh on horseback, close to cottage cheese?
>
> ~Aislinn~

Maybe, or perhaps even a dried yogurt-type product, similar to kishk  
(kishik? -- no, I'm not talking about kishkas; those are sausages in  
a completely and coincidentally different language).

Offhand, I'm not certain, but I seem to recall a reference in ASFTQ  
to a dried yogurt product...

Adamantius

>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"  
>> <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
>> Sent: Sep 21, 2006 10:28 PM
>> To: hlaislinn at earthlink.net, Cooks within the SCA <sca- 
>> cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>>> MONGOLIAN MEAT CAKES
>>
>> I have this book! Somewhere... Do I remember a title or author? Of
>> course not! I'll look. I definitely remember the recipe, down to the
>> cheese, which I found a little odd...
>>
>> Adamantius
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