[Sca-cooks] 12th Night
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Sun Jan 7 06:23:40 PST 2007
Tigernach,
I am so sorry we didn't see you at Twelfth night and hope you are well.
I mentioned making Littiu on the Cook's list and was asked this. If
you would be kind enough to respond, I'll forward the answer.
Ranvaig
>
>This is interesting. Oats have been eaten in semi-solidified form for
>thousands of years, and I gather from looking at the stuff saved in
>the Florilegium that this is just oats and milk, cooked as a thick
>porridge and allowed to cool somewhat, so I'm not questioning this as
>a dish, per se. But if our knowledge of what this is/consists of is
>sorta sketchy, why use this obviously Celtic name? Is it just an
>Irish word for oats? Why is it not just oatmeal or porridge, or
>flummery, or what distinguishes it from them? Is it that the name has
>emerged from Irish poetry and people have felt the need to come up
>with a functional "recipe" to match it, and this is what it is?
>
>Just trying to understand the reasoning process...
>
>Adamantius
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