[Sca-cooks] Surviving medieval sauces?

[Susan Lin]

I seem to recall that a meal was made to the humor of the ranking male
(either The Lord of the home or an honored guest) and then sauces were used
to "fix" it for other members of the party bringing it into the right humor
for each of them.

I do not have a source, I recall this from a discussion of the four humors
at Known World Cooks and Bards in the Outlands a year or two ago.

Shoshanah

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> The funny thing, Maire, is because it was a 57th birthday party, we had to
> have the obligatory bottle of Heinz 57. Which wasn't opened. :-)
>
> The hot one might have been cameline.
>
> Liutgard
>
> On 2/17/2014 8:55 AM, S CLEMENGER wrote:
>
>> I was thinking of Sauce Poivre, I believe? I've seen modern chefs do
>> surprisingly similar things (thickening with bread crumbs, too, sometimes).
>> And I'm currently caffeine-less (waiting on the teapot), so I don't have
>> two brain cells to rub together to let me try to recall which source. It's
>> been years since I've made it, but ooooh, so good!
>>
>>
>> Dammit, now I want a steak slathered in that stuff. *cry*
>>
>>
>> --Maire, glaring at her currently-meatless kitchen
>>
>>
>> Sent from Windows Mail
>>
>>
>> From: Laura C. Minnick
>> Sent: February 16, 2014 10:35 PM
>> To: Cooks within the SCA
>> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Surviving medieval sauces?
>>
>>
>>
>> Maire, which one? ISTR there's two or three. (I've no memory which text,
>> and the books with all of the little colored markers are still under the
>> pile of detritus left from the recent bookcase shuffle... COE?) Sauce
>> Poivre, and Yellow sauce at least, I think.
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