[Sca-cooks] raising food for feasts, evidence for vegetables

[Stefan li Rous]

Susan said:
<<< When you are preparing feasts, do you purposely grown specific vegetables in your gardens? Like if you plant white carrots, you would probably charge the cost for the seeds and roughly estimate the water and any other items used to grow them? >>>

It has been done in multiple places, although I’ve mostly seen it done with animals as opposed to vegetables. A lady in my area raised quail, I think it was, for a feast she did.

From some previous discussions:
rasng-fd-fsts-msg (8K) 9/ 5/05 Raising plants and animals for SCA feasts
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/rasng-fd-fsts-msg.html

<<< I ask because vegetables and fruits don?t appear in accounts of medieval manors. I suppose they were collecting their seeds and planting them instead of going to a garden center to buy a package. >>>

This could be one reason. Here is evidence that raw vegetables and fruits were eaten in period, although they seldom show up in feast menus.
raw-fruit-vg-msg (29K) 9/23/10 Evidence that raw fruits and vegetables were eaten in period.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/raw-fruit-vg-msg.html

Stefan
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