[Sca-cooks] Street food?

[James Prescott]

I grabbed nine possible books from my bookshelves.  While all nine 
mention the selling of food on the streets or in fairs or markets, none 
goes into any great detail.


My guess is that probably almost anything cooked was for sale, though 
probably not any of the super-fancy dishes that are described in the 
cookbooks for upper-class tables.  There is mention of "baked apples" 
for sale in one of the books; bakery goods (breads and cakes and wafers 
and so on) of almost any kind in others; roast or baked meats (including 
whole roast birds and whole roast venison) in others.  Sweets of various 
kinds, and meat pies, and prepared sauces, cooked peas, fried peas, 
would be sold.  A whole roast pig for 8 pence in 1363.


One good source would be the street cries, which were sometimes noted 
down by authors.  For example from 1377 England (in modern translation) 
"Hot pies, hot!  Good pork and geese!  Let's go dine!  ... [wines] to 
wash the roast down with!"  Also mentioned is "Les Crieries de Paris", 
part of a two-volume set in French edited by Barbazan that mentions 79 
raw and prepared foodstuffs, though the short quotation mentions only 
raw items.


But, alas, none of the nine that I grabbed covers the topic in any 
particular detail.


Thorvald


On 2014-06-16, 10:14, Beth Harper wrote:
> 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.
>
> "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?
>
> Liepa Jonaite
> Outlands
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