[Sca-cooks] Street food?

JIMCHEVAL at aol.com JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Jun 16 15:52:29 PDT 2014


Since the Cris de Paris is in old French and has a lot of other material in 
 it, here are the foods which seem to have been sold as prepared foods:
 
Pea puree, hot broad beans
hot pasties, hot cakes [gastiaux/gateau - not  necessarily a cake as we 
would understand it today] 
Stale cakes? [gastiaux  rastis]
hot "reinforced" wafers [waffles?]
Hot galettes, "scalded"  pastries [dipped in boiling water]
Bread from the Sas and Carmelite  brothers'
Various other breads from other groups
Warm flans
Hot tarts  and simnel bread
Cake with bean [typically for the Feast of the Kings, but  mentioned 
outside those dates as well]
 
The fruit too might have been sold as street food, but that's less  certain.
 
Otherwise, there's a poem further on specifically about one of the major  
fairs (the Lendit fair), but it doesn't mention food vendors; it does however 
 mention taverns at the fair:
 
p. 175 Du Lendit Rime
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

At  the table in early medieval France
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/06/at-table-in-early-medieval-france.html
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(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.html) 





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