[Sca-cooks] Food, glorious food! (mostly OOP)
Daniel And elizabeth phelps
dephelps at embarqmail.com
Sun May 22 02:06:37 PDT 2011
Didn't we have a discussion a while back regarding that the religious prohibition against eating horse meat was tied to trying to root out Norse pagan practices?
Daniel
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From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 3:04:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Food, glorious food! (mostly OOP)
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
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
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