[Sca-cooks] Siege food
Suey
lordhunt at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 13:21:02 PDT 2010
Donna wrote:
> On the topic of siege food, my sweetie has a book on the Hugenot wars and it has a translation of a letter which gives instructions on cooking shoes and other bits of leather to make them into food. The letter was apparently written during a siege and the supply of possible commestables was getting low.
>
It would be nice to know how they did it. In 1422 just after Juan II's
marriage to Maria of Aragon, he was abducted by his brother-in-law and
taken prisoner with his wife to Talavera. As "imprisonment" had a loose
sense of the word, he went "hunting" one day which subsequently incurred
a cowboy and Indian chase through Extremadura. Finally he took refuge in
a castile and was surrounded by bro-in-law and hi troops. Juan and his
party survived by eating their horses, saddles, gloves - whatever. Later
on the Master of the knightly order of Alcantera gets into what I call
'barons wars' in Extremadura and he surrounds his enemy in a castle who,
with his wife and troops, live off of leather after the animals were
consumed.
Suey
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