[Sca-cooks] pickled cucumbers recipe
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sat Sep 6 00:53:18 PDT 2008
Guillaume,
Thanks for posting this.
Is this a period recipe? And either way, what manuscript was this
found in? I'm guessing the original is in French?
thanks,
Stefan
PS: Tomorrow (Saturday) my barony is having a demo/Renaissance Fair
at a park. I'll be doing the Old World-New World food game we've
talked about here in the past. I did it last year and it went over
well with both the SCA and the mundane folks, so I was asked to do it
again. This year I've also made some period gingerbread to share
with the folks that participate in the game.
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Ardenia,
I have made this one and it worked pretty nicely.
Yours,
Guillaume
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Original text and translation:
To preserve some cucumbers
Take some small cucumbers, and leave them on a table to dry three or
four
days, then take some vinegar and boil them [>it, the vinegar], and
skim, and
let cool, then throw the cucumbers in, and leave them thus a
fortnight or
three weeks, then throw the vinegar out, and take other vinegar
boiled and
skimmed, and let cool, then pour it on the cucumbers and add ground
alum,
and take some fennel seed which is almost ripe, and throw into the cask
which should be well closed, and preserve it thus.
Pour garder des concombres
Prennez des petites concombres, & les laissez sur vne table suer
trois ou
quatre iours, puis prennez du vinaigre & les faictes boullir, &
escumer, &
laissez refroidir, alors iettez les concombres dedans, et les laissez
ainsi
quinze iours ou trois sepmaines, puis iettez le vinaigre dehors, et
prennez
autre vinaigre boully et escum?, et laissez refroidir, puis iettez le
sur
les concombres et mettez allun estamp? dedans, et prenn?s de la
semence de
fenouille qui soit quasi meure, & iett?s dedans le tonneau qui soit bien
serr?, & le gard?s ainsi.
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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