[Sca-cooks] what the Franks were eating

[Laura C. Minnick]

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> <<<  And yes, I'm working on figuring out what the Franks were eating. :-)
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> Liutgard>>>
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> Frankfurters?  :-)
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> Stefan
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With baked beans and potato chips, right?

No, really. I went through the stuff in this inventory:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/800Asnapium.html which is keen 
also for the other stuff in it- and not- only one towel? For the whole 
estate? But there's a list of what is in the pantry and barns, all of 
the livestock, etc., which is very interesting. And what is growing in 
the kitchen gardens and the orchards too.

Then there's this:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulare_de_villis_vel_curtis_imperii The 
Capitulare was basically the instructions that Charlemagne sent out on 
how he wanted his various estates run, including what was to be grown in 
the gardens, fields, orchards, etc. This page is in German, but if you 
scroll down, you'll find the Latin names for these plants. Occasionally 
there's two listed, apparently because for the one original word, there 
are two possibilities as to what the plant is. There's a very wide 
variety of fruit and vegetables, some medicial herbs, and some nuts. A 
_very_ interesting list.

I'm hoping to put together a conjectural Frankish meal for an event over 
Memorial day. We'll see how that goes. I figure that between this and 
Anthimus, I have a good start.

Liutgard ;-)




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