[Sca-cooks] Looking for "Celtic" foods, especially "finger foods"
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 3 09:14:55 PST 2012
Cariadoc wrote:
> This could be interpreted as implying that you are describing a period dish. As you probably realize, Cornish pasties are not--as might be suggested by the potatoes in the recipe. The fact that there is a word in French in the 12th century that can be translated as "pasties" does not mean that the 18th century Cornish pasty is period, or even that there was a period food that was similar.
>
I realize this, and I also realize that the potatoes are a dead
give-away to relatively modern recipe. These notes were from my work
for a TV show that did not ask for a medieval recipe, they just wanted
Cornish Pasties and that's what they got. However, if you swap the
'taters out for more turnips [not swedes - that's another modern rant],
I call it "conjecturally period" for the lady's purposes.
I love hais, you turned me on to them, but I can't honestly call those
"Celtic".
Cheers,
Selene
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