[Sca-cooks] Re" Scotch Whiskey was Scottish cuisine (and now, blood dishes)
Pat Griffin
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Sat Nov 29 23:56:08 PST 2008
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Lady Anne du Bosc, called Mordonna
Thorngill, Meridies
"If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you confront the dragon, it will overpower you. If you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its might and power."
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Subject: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 31, Issue 91
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Scottish cuisine (and now, blood dishes) (Johnna Holloway)
2. Re: Scottish cuisine (and now, blood dishes) (Elaine Koogler)
3. Re: OT&OOP-Cranberries (S CLEMENGER)
4. Re: Cooking for Power (S CLEMENGER)
5. Re: Cajun Coffee OOP was Re: Cooking for Power (S CLEMENGER)
6. Re: Cooking for Power (alpage1225 at sbcglobal.net)
7. Re: Cooking for Power (S CLEMENGER)
8. Re: Stefan pulls a Drakey (Stefan li Rous)
9. water and "plums" (Stefan li Rous)
10. South Louisiana coffee (Stefan li Rous)
And the source that is now available that ought to be looked at is:
C. Anne Wilson's Water of Life
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/lane/kal69/shop/pages/isbn463.htm
Johnnae
While I'd love to have a copy of this, it is out of my price range at this
point. Maybe if my ship comes in....
Kiri
PS: Bear...thanks so much for your information. I may be contacting you
privately for some more information along these lines...
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
> And the source that is now available that ought to be looked at is:
> C. Anne Wilson's Water of Life
> http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/lane/kal69/shop/pages/isbn463.htm
>
> Johnnae
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Nope. Don't do artificial sweeteners.
<shudders>
--Maire
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen A Roberts" <karobert at unm.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT&OOP-Cranberries
>
> i tried splenda last year, and the consistency just wasn't
> there. i am going to experiment with splenda blend this
> year. anyone tried this before?
Probably coffee with chicory in it, Stefan....
--Maire, who used to have a neighbor from Nawleans....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking for Power
> Gunthar mentioned:
>
> <<< Let's see so far we've gotten
> ...
> Cajun coffee (Gleann Abhann is thrilled that my Queen is from New
> Orleans)
> and several other items.
>
> And the reign is just beginning! >>>
>
> What is Cajun coffee? Is this coffee with peppers added? Is this
> coffee processed by feeding the beans to Cajuns, as with that furry
> animal? :-)
>
> Stefan
Mmmmmm....Lebanese coffee.....mmmmmm
--Maire, doing a Homer Simpson imitation....
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From: "Susan Fox" <selene at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:00 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Cajun Coffee OOP was Re: Cooking for Power
> chawkswrth at aol.com wrote:
> > If they haven't, they should.
> >
> Cafe du Monde is a very famous place. They market their coffee in tins
> at my local grocery, for instance -- in Los Angeles, the other LA!
> > I think South Louisiana is where I learned to Not Drink the
> > Coffee-unless you like the thought of not sleeping for the next three
> > days! <LOL> We once had a member of the church make the coffee
for one
> > of the church dinners. After the maker stopped, he emptyed the carafe
> > into another and put the carafe back...and ran the coffee back
through
> > the grounds several times.
> > ?He told Dad that the maker made it too weak....
> >
>
> Piffle. They hardly invented Strong Coffee in Louisiana. Every had
> real Greek or Turkish coffee? No wonder those countries have had such
> tense negotiations for so many centuries.
>
> Selene
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No, just a really dark blend of coffee -- almost espresso strength. Not all
Louisiana coffee has chicory in it.
Elizabeth
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From: S CLEMENGER <sclemenger at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:16:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking for Power
Probably coffee with chicory in it, Stefan....
--Maire, who used to have a neighbor from Nawleans....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking for Power
> What is Cajun coffee? Is this coffee with peppers added? Is this
> coffee processed by feeding the beans to Cajuns, as with that furry
> animal? :-)
>
> Stefan
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I bet it's good! I like really dark, strong coffee! I hadn't heard,
though,
until reading this thread, that LA coffee *didn't* necessarily have
chicory!
Funny, isn't it? what we come to "expect" because we don't
know better?
That's a good reason I love this list so much!
Of course, I like really dark chocolate, too....mmmm.....having some now
(chocolate, not coffee--not at this hour, at any rate!)
--Maire
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From: <alpage1225 at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking for Power
No, just a really dark blend of coffee -- almost espresso strength. Not all
Louisiana coffee has chicory in it.
Elizabeth
<<< water is now wonderfully soft, and better for my skin!! Just
don't water
your orchids with it! I lost 4 of the buggers until it was pointed out to
me that they don't like the salts that are used in the water softening
process! >>>
<<< Yeah, and don't use it either if you have an aquarium. And,
well,
you're not supposed to drink it either, are you? I thought these
things had a special drinking water pipe that didn't go through the
softening process? >>>
Yes, in my mother's previous house out in the country on its own well
needed a water softener. I think that the faucet in the Kitchen had a filter on
it. But she had a special line put in that bypassed the water softener just for
her plants.
One of the chores when I or my brother went out there after my dad died was to
dump several 50 lb sacks of salt in to the water softener. She moved into
Austin a year or two ago when she decided she was getting to old to keep that
place up.
<<< I don't know why, this brought up images of orange Pennsic
water... yuck! >>>
Except the extra iron in the Pennsic water is probably better for you than the
salt from the water softeners, except for people whose salt level tends to be
low such as my wife. She's one of the few people I know of, whom her doctors
encourage her to add extra salt to her food!
Stefan
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
Suey said:
<<< I talk about changes in water. When walking the Way of St. James,
I was
advised to drink bottled water and to keep to the same brand as just
changes in brands could upset my stomach. I do not have the references
here but there is a whole book on 'polluted waters' found I think it
was
written in the 10th century if my memory is correct. >>>
What is the "Way of St. James"? Is this following the pilgrims path
in Spain. I do have this Florilegium file on medieval water quality.
bev-water-msg (30K) 6/11/06 Water as a beverage in period.
If you come across the details of this 10th century book on water quality,
I'd love to add that information to this file.
<<< The only figure I know who received material benefits through
cooking
was not a cook but a messenger. He was little Jack Horner. He did not
pull out a plum from the pie he was taking to Henry VIII as a Christmas
present from the Abbot of Glastonbury but a deed to Mells Manor, common
fare in those days to hide deeds in pies. The descendants still own the
estate. >>>
I've heard that many "nursery" rhymes actually sprung from
political satires disguised to keep the authors from getting in trouble. I have
this article on songs, but I would love to have more details on whether what we
think of as nursery rhymes, also originated that way.
P-Polit-Songs-art (8K) 7/24/02 "Period Political Songs" by Baron
Hrolf
Herjolffsen OP.
Including more information on this Jack Horner story. That was quite a
"plum". But did simply having possession of the deed also give you
possession of the property? I'd have thought that all the Abbot would have
to do was simply say that the deed was meant for the King. Or that the deed
itself would have had words added to it transferring ownership to the King.
Either way, taking something from the King would seem to be a rather dangerous
thing to do.
Stefan
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
Helen described "South Louisiana" coffee:
<<< I grew up in Metarie, just two blocks away from New Orleans
Parish.
Cafe Du Monde has a hot chocolate that will spoil you for ANY of the boxed
stuff. Rich, creamy and chocolatey, we are talking Serious Hot Chocolate, here.
>>>
ohhhh. Sounds wonderful.
<<< Just imagine, if you will...hot, fresh fried beignets, covered in
powdered sugar, and hot, rich, wonderful chocolate. What else do you need on a
cold January evening, right after watching the Sugar Bowl? >>>
Ah, something exciting and wonderful, after something boring and dull. :-)
<<< I think South Louisiana is where I learned to Not Drink the
Coffee-unless you like the thought of not sleeping for the next three days!
<LOL> >>>.
Sounds like something useful for Pennsic! or Gulf Wars. Are you going to the
upcoming Gulf Wars? My barony camps next to the Barony of Axe Mor, the group
from New Orleans. It would be nice to meet you or some of the other folks from
there. Perhaps even try some of this coffee. I've had regular coffee three
times in my life and I thought all of it was rather bland and thin and diluted.
I did try a Coffee Latte(?) for the first time two years ago at one of the
Pennsic coffee houses and several times at a coffee house here in Austin where a
friend sings. *That* I like. Coffee but with chocolate and some whipped cream.
Gulf War I or II, some group from Louisiana or at least Meridies brought
crawfish and had a crawfish boil. This was the first time I had more than one
or two. What I ate would have probably cost a small fortune at a restaurant.
:-) It was wonderful! I have seen crawfish start to show up in my local
grocery stores at what sound like reasonable prices. Until you realize you throw
more than half of the crawfish away. I think I've seen frozen crawfish tail
meat too, but I don't remember the price on that.
Stefan
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
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