[Sca-cooks] OOP - Food for a 19th Century Parisian Courtesan

[Kingstaste]

I thought maybe you could stretch the non-sweet to include wafers.
They really didn't do cocktail nibbles, did they?

Johnnae


No, those came about with the Speakeasy (had to have something to wash down
the bathtub gin with!).  
The consumptive diets were all based on putting on weight, so they tend to
be meat, cream, and egg heavy.  Pastries and cakes are said to be right out
though.  There are lots of things like ground meat rolled into balls and
rolled in sugar, served raw.  Yum - mmee.  :/
I haven't found a direct reference to a blancmange yet, but 'rice cooked in
milk' was mentioned in one 19th century health manual on a list of diets for
consumptives, as well as meats and custards of eggs and milk.  I think a
savory rice and chicken in a molded shape would do pretty well for my
purposes.  They also stress fresh fruits and vegetables, so I'm considering
haricot vert or asparagus or even a recipe for pureed spinach.  Hard to make
a 'snack' out of that though...
 
LOL - Huette, I could go with a bag of Riccola and be done with it, right?
HA!
Christianna



On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Kingstaste wrote:
> Those are all wonderful, and I had also thought of the Nipples of  
> Venus.
> However, I am not assigned sweets, but non-sweets.  I'm considering  
> taking
> the Greta Garbo Cocktail which is not my area either, but might be fun
> (recipe below).  I've started looking at Diets for Consumptives, and  
> think I may do a
> blancmange, along with some other savories.  Christianna
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