[Sca-cooks] Early Irish food

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:24:48 -0500
  "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
<adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

>>what seems  
>> to be some kind of honey butter -esque spread. cream 
>>boilded with  
>> honey until thick.  odd that.
> 
> Do we have any indication it is a spread?
doesn't say exactly how it was eaten, but it was upper 
class chow from what i can tell.
>\

and let's not forget the stirabout the upperclass ate 
(grain with milk and honey for the hoi paloi, grain and 
water, broth or watered milk for the lower classes)

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