[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 98, Issue 17

[Lindsay Swan]

The portable ovens on wheels were something I assumed was for things like
street fairs...
You see bread loaves but more often round coffin style pies coming out of
those in period art.
Just a thought.
On Jun 16, 2014 3:05 PM, <sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

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> I suggest trying frame tales; Canterbury, Decameron, Heptameron etc.  to
> see if there is mention.
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> Daniel
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> This question came across my Kingdom Facebook page, and as it's something
> I'm curios about as well, I thought I'd toss it out here.
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> "Does anyone know of any books that reference food served at street fairs
> and carnivals for our time line?"
>
> I haven't had a chance to look through my own books or do a thorough
> looking through of the Florilegium, although I did browse through briefly
> last night and nothing popped out at me. Any ideas?
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> Liepa Jonaite
> Outlands
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> From: JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
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> The first question would be if there was street  food per se in the period.
> At some point in France, sellers of wafers  (essentially mini-waffles,
> cooked between two irons) were selling these in the  street, but I'm
> uncertain
> of when that started. This said, it would make a nice  food for an event;
> someone could design irons that stamp the event or seller's  logo on the
> wafers
> (instead of the religious imagery once common) and make a  show of cooking
> dough between the tong-like irons.
>
> If one counts tavern  food as street food (and likely that IS what visitors
> most ate), the poet  Deschamps has a lively look at what he got in a
> Flemish  tavern:
>
> Deschamps, Eustache, Oeuvres in?dites d'Eustache Deschamps v1  1849
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvCu1Zf2qJsC&dq=inauthor%3Adeschamps%20inti
> tle%3Aoeuvres%20moustarde&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false
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> Overall,  food does not seem to have been a big concern in the early fairs.
> Accounts of  them mainly mention textiles and, to a far lesser degree, food
> like eggs and  cheese which were sold as goods. But it's not like accounts
> of eighteenth  century fairs where gingerbread and other treats are
> regularly  mentioned.
>
> Jim Chevallier
> www.chezjim.com
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> At the table in early  medieval France
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/06/at-table-in-early-medieval-france.html
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> In  a message dated 6/16/2014 9:16:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> canatsey86 at gmail.com writes:
> I have a few resources on period tavern
> food  from England,
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