[Sca-cooks] Looking for "Celtic" foods, especially "finger foods"

[David Friedman]

At Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:14:55 -0800, Susan Fox wrote:
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>Cariadoc wrote:
>> This could be interpreted as implying that you are describin g 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.
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>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.
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>I love hais, you turned me on to them, but I can't honestly call those 
>"Celtic".
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>Cheers,
>Selene
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On "conjecturally period" pasties. My guess is you could get better support for that from actual period recipes for stuff enclosed in a crust, of which there are lots--my favorite being barmakiya.

Like hais, it isn't exactly Celtic. On the other hand ... .

I'm currently working on a book on legal systems very different from ours, coming out of a seminar I teach. Chapters include one on traditional Somali law and one on ancient Irish law. The two systems have at least two striking similarities.

As I comment in the book, the Celts got pretty far, but I don't think they got that far.

Still, one never knows.


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