[Sca-cooks] Spanish Pepper?

[Saint Phlip]

I heard about that. I believe you'll remember us, with Frederich
unable to shut up about the "poo". We helped our opponent with his
entry against the people who were so upset. He certainly deserved to
win- I was just happy I was able to help him with the "dormice in
honey" concept ;-) Brighid, they were your dormice, considering they
were made out of radishes ;-)

Anyway, everything I've ever heard and seen indicates that the
capsicum peppers are entirely New World. Granted, they may have been
used in period to some extent, in Europe, but that's going to happen
when you have a cut-off date based on a date that has no real validity
in terms of folks' doings, historically speaking.

However-

I still feel that the black-eyed peas were OOP. Can someone go back
over that? I think we could use turkey more easily than black-eyed
peas.

I think we ought to tell folks what was done for that challenge ;-)
Frederich and I had a ball, and it served to get Rowan, our other
teammate, more interested in period cookery.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Honour Horne-Jaruk <jarukcomp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Respected friends:
> At my annual "siege cooking" contest at Pennsic this year, one of the contestants included dishes spiced with "Spanish pepper" - a Capsicum pepper, not a Piper species- which she insisted went back to Roman times and was ironclad-documentable to our time period.
> I said I didn't agree and refused those dishes entry. The contestants were very upset with me.
> I must preface by saying all new world spices were forbidden because I'm allergic/hypersensitive to them, and Capsicum peppers are high on that list.
> However, I now beg the Collected Wisdom of sca-cooks to help me figure out why my contestant thought Capsicum peppers were around in Roman times. Is there some kind of Piper which was grown in Spain by the Romans, or is the whole thing out of whack, or what?
>
> Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
> (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
> Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict
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