[Sca-cooks] looking for lentil recipe Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 59, Issue 21

[Kingstaste]

We just did one from the new version of Apicius (not my copy so I don't have
it here to give you details). The recipe may be named "Lentils and Leeks".
It was basic cooked lentils with equal parts (or rather flavor-balanced
parts) of defrutum (we made ours out of Manachevitz grape, spices, boiled it
down to 1/3), honey, and red wine vinegar.  A nice full-bodied vinegar gives
a good balance with the other two sweeter things.  We did plain brown
lentils with this along with some caramelized leek slices and it was
wonderful.  
Christianna 

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Thanks Johnnae,
you are fast and good, as always.
hm...boiled and with vinegar... not too bad.. But butter I think would count
as 
'animal fat' and thus a nono in this specific case...
I seem to recall chibols are onions?

Purr
Gwen Cat


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snippingMissed this recipe. It was at the top of the search. It's not
Northern  
Europe.
This is an excerpt from An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook
(Andalusia, 13th c. - Charles Perry, trans.)
The original source can be found at David Friedman's website

A Muzawwara (Vegetarian Dish) Beneficial for Tertian Fevers and Acute  
Fevers. Take boiled peeled lentils and wash in hot water several  
times; put in the pot and add water without covering them; cook and  
then throw in pieces of gourd, or the stems [ribs] of Swiss chard, or  
of lettuce and its tender sprigs, or the flesh of cucumber or melon,  
and vinegar, coriander seed, a little cumin, Chinese cinnamon, saffron  
and two ?qiyas of fresh oil; balance with a little salt and cook.  
Taste, and if its flavor is pleasingly balanced between sweet and  
sour, [good;] and if not, reinforce until it is equalized, according  
to taste, and leave it to lose its heat until it is cold and then serve.

Johnnae

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