[Sca-cooks] Lenten Observations was Officially serving modern food at SCA...
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Thu Jan 31 07:14:12 PST 2013
They are in fact ungodly complicated. Birds for a while were permitted,
since they were created on the same day as fish. Under Charlemagne, monks
were allowed to have pork fat since oil was difficult to get in some regions,
but dairy became forbidden. Etc.
Le Grand d'Aussy wrote several long sections on this in his history of
French food, which I've translated as "Catholic Fasting in France from the
Franks to the Eighteenth Century".
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 1/31/2013 6:59:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
lcm at jeffnet.org writes:
In the 8th c the rules were much more stringent, and I've not been able
to find the beginning point of relaxation/allowances/indulgences. Not to
say they aren't there later, just that I am still looking.
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