[Sca-cooks] Tharida questions (long)

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Sun Nov 8 14:36:35 PST 2009


lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Here are the recipes, as "written" by Martinelli and from Duke 
> Cariadoc's website. Some of Martinelli's changes are minor, but a few...
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> Tharida with Lamb and Spinach, Moist Cheese and Butter
>
> From Martinelli, p. 38: (she resentenced and added breaks)
> This used to be made in Cordoba in the spring by the doctor Abu 
> al-Hasan al-Bunani, God have mercy on him and pardon us and him.
>
> Take the meat of a fat lamb, cut it and put it in the pot with salt, 
> onion juice, pepper, coriander seed, caraway and oil. Put it on the 
> fire and when it has *cooked*, put in it chopped and washed spinach in 
> sufficient quantity, *grated* moist cheese *[a soft, fresh cheese]* 
> and butter.
>
> When it has *cooked*, take the pot off the fire and *add more* butter. 
> Let there be crumbs of bread moderately leavened *[add the crumbs to 
> the liquid first, then]* put your meat on it.
>
> And if he, God have mercy on him, lacked lamb meat, he would make a 
> tharida of spinach, moist cheese, butter and the previously mentioned 
> spices and eggs instead of meat.
>
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian8.htm 
>
> This used to be made in Cordoba in the spring by the doctor Abu 
> al-Hasan al-Bunani, God have mercy on him and pardon us and him. Take 
> the meat of a fat lamb, cut it and put it in the pot with salt, onion 
> juice, pepper, coriander seed, [p. 58, recto] caraway and oil; put it 
> to the fire and when it has *finished*, put in it chopped and washed 
> spinach in sufficient quantity, *rubbed* moist cheese[148] and butter. 
> When it has *finished*, take the pot off the fire and *moisten with* 
> butter. Let there be crumbs of bread moderately leavened*, *and put 
> your meat on them, and if he (God have mercy on him) lacked lamb meat, 
> he would make a tharida of spinach, moist cheese, butter and the 
> previously mentioned spices and eggs instead of meat.
> [148] Presumably a fresh farmer's cheese or cottage cheese. (CP)
>


Oh god, yum!

[148] I would tend to go for fresh, mild feta. As soon as I get some 
lamb, that is.

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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