[Sca-cooks] An almost final Feast Menu

[Antonia di B C]

On 19/04/2011 4:13 PM, Chawkswrth wrote:
> OK-I am blushing. <grin>
>
> I thought Cukes were New World?

No, absolutely not.

> But-practically everything I am serving, except for the last course, 
> can be documented. How would I justify Cucumbers?


There are plenty of period and near-period recipes out there.

http://feastofthecenturies.wordpress.com/tag/elizabethan-recipe/
http://www.ostgardr.org/cooking/andrea.platina.dinner.html#Cucumbers
http://cunnan.sca.org.au/index.php?title=Preserved_Cowcumbers&oldid=33937

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