[Sca-cooks] Period foods for non-SCA pot lucks

[Aruvqan]

On 11/20/2014 11:25 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Aruvqan suggested:
> <<< Armored turnips, loseyns, makke, the eggplant pancakes from al-Andalusi,
> isfanakh mutajjan, beef y-stewed, gingerbread and Digby's cheesy spoo. >>>
>
> Thanks. One of the things I was thinking about, but didn’t say explicitly was that the dishes shouldn’t be so weird that they scare folks off of period food. So I understand that comment about hiding the note card until later.
>
> I’m not at all sure about that eggplant pancakes, myself. :-)
>
> I had to look up what “makke” was. Google was no help, but the Florilegium had some entries. :-)  Did you make this with canned fava beans? Or did you find some fresh ones?
>
Canned favas, I have never seen fresh favas, though I suppose we could 
try our hand at growing them sometime.

I am not particularly fond of eggplant, but texturally they can be made 
very latke-like. I have seen them made both with shreds, and totally 
pureed.

We were recently mucking around with combining shakshuka and manti [a 
dish of eggs, onions, and peppers with spices cooked in a skillet and 
not overly pureed, and little thin sheet of pasta wrapped spiced 
'meatballs'. The manti are normally served in chicken broth] and it came 
out well the second time. [When we tried cooking the manti in the tomato 
glop, the pasta sort of turned into shreds and the meat into meat sauce] 
The second time we baked the manti then plopped them into the shakshuka 
to finish them off in the sauce, and they came out nicely that time 
around. I have no idea how period shakshuka is - tomatoes and peppers 
are post 1500, I was wondering what they could have been doing the 
tomatoes and peppers in place of but the manti should be quite period as 
sheets of pasta and meat-and-seasoning-balls are period. Rob was joking 
of them as armenian tortellini. He figures he will probably take 
shakshuka in to his next potluck, but with the original egg instead of 
the version with manti instead of egg.

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