[Sca-cooks] Food, glorious food! (mostly OOP)

[Stefan li Rous]

Alys K. said:
<<< Back in the early '50s when I was a child, we visited my  
grandparents in
Olympia, Washington.  At a family picnic I had the best steak I had ever
eaten - tender, flavorful.  I asked for seconds.  A few years later my
mother asked me if I would ever consider eating horsemeat.  I made a
face and said "no".  "Well," she said, "that's what you had in  
Washington." >>>

This objection to eating horsemeat seems to have been common in  
medieval Europe, at least among the upper classes. I think I have one  
European recipe for horsemeat, but I have many more from southwest  
Asia. But I still find it hard to believe that the lower classes would  
let an old plow horse go to waste.
horse-recipes-msg (34K) 10/16/04 Period horse recipes. References.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/horse-recipes-msg.html

<<< Our minds play a powerful role in how we perceive the food we  
eat.  In
Argentina in the early '60s, my fellow students happily ate "sesos y
huevos revueltos".  The latter, scrambled eggs, I would have eaten.
Unfortunately for me, I knew what "sesos" were - brains. >>>

Lol. My lady wife seemed to like calamari, until a waiter told her it  
was octopus or squid. Now she won't touch it.

I don't seem to see many recipes in the Florilegium using brains. They  
may be used in a recipe in this file:
Romanian-ckbk-art (112K) 1/25/04 "A Translation of a 17th Century  
Romanian Cookbook" by Lord Petru cel paros Voda.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Romanian-ckbk-art.html

And in some sausages. In fact in Mistress Brighid ni Chiarain's  
translation of Ruperto de Nola's 1529 "Libre del Coch" it says "And  
after it is dead, cut off the head and throw it away because it is not  
for eating, for they say that eating the brains will cause him who  
eats them to ..."

So does anyone know of any other recipes I should add to the organ- 
meats-msg file in the Florilegium? Can you even buy brains these days?  
Or is that a prohibited item to sell, like lungs?

Thanks,

   Stefan

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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