[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 125, Issue 21

[Cassandra Baldassano]

My approach to something like this would be along the lines of:

Random SCA person: Great feast! Blah, blah, blah, Honey Butter, blah.

Me: Honey butter? I have been searching for a period honey butter recipe.
Can you share the resource where you found the recipe?

Random SCA person: I don't have a period recipe (or insert whatever comment
they might make)

Me: Oh well. Thank you. If you come across a resource would you please let
me know.


The reason I would use this approach is because it is hard to prove
something didn't happen, or didn't exist. Especially with recipes. It goes
along the line of , if they had it they would have done it. What we know is
that we don't have any evidence as of the current time whether or not a
recipe may have existed. So this approach doesn't imply that something
doesn't exist, but gives us opportunity to ask for the evidence.

Euriol

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:40 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >An individual posted, I think in her Facebook timeline, about a recent
> SCA feast:
> ><<< Feast last night was Great!
> >Round loaves of fresh-baked on site, bread and patties of honey butter
> and herbed (real) butter [SNIP] >>>
> >
> >I posted that honey butter wasn?t period. and got this reply:
> >Diana Shell Wertz
> ><<< uh,.... why wouldn't 'honey-butter' be period ???? both are period.
> why couldn't they have been combined ? I thought 'honey' was considered a
> 'spice' (sorta) there's just no reason they couldn't have been?? >>>
> >
> >And gave one supporting file and one that I thought could be used to
> create alternatives.
> >
> >Honey-Butter-art (20K) 11/17/01 "Is Honey Butter Period?" by THL Katja
> Davidova Orlova Khazarina.
> >http://www.florilegium.org/.../FOOD.../Honey-Butter-art.html
> >
> >flavord-butrs-msg (45K) 10/26/10 Period and SCA, flavored butters.
> >http://www.florilegium.org/.../FOO.../flavord-butrs-msg.html
> >
> >Then I get criticized with:
> ><<< Bragg MacMorrichai
> >As a culinary historian, I appreciate the fact that you point out, we
> have no period recipes for honey butter. Seeing as in Meridies , a"period"
> feast is usually announced as such , with attendant documentation presented
> before hand....and most of our feast are not period,but a mix of
> traditional favorites and sometimes even blatantly mundane fare, to dig on
> this one thing out of a menu, seems a bit uncalled for. >>>
> >
> >I don?t think I?m being overly critical. Am I?
> >
> >That was just a very obvious mistake to me and I thought it worthwhile to
> correct it.
> >
> >I think there are other problems, too, without have more details. For
> instance, I don?t know what the ?Assorted drinks? included.
> >The ?very flakey crust? seems very unlikely to me.
> >
> >Any other comments on this feast as given?
> >
> >I?m not just trying to be critical, at least I don?t think so. This feast
> does seem to be much better than many of the SCA feasts in Meridies from
> what I?ve seen in feast menu announcements.
> >
> >Stefan
> >PS: Does someone have a period recipe for stuffed mushrooms? I sure would
> like to find one.
>
> Wow, just wow. I would not consider your response out of line. The two of
> them were really unnecessarily snippy.
>
> They could easily have said, "Thanks for the information. Our feasts
> aren't period and we enjoy honey butter."
>
> I am so sorry they dumped their loads on you, Stefan. Also, that guy
> doesn't seem to be much of a "culinary historian". He dropped himself right
> into the old "blue jeans" argument:
> If indigo dye is period, and cotton is period, and twill weave is period,
> then they could have / probably had blue jeans [NOT].
>
> They sure cannot stand up even the mildest a critique... and you were not
> being critical, Stefan.
>
> Urtatim
> catching up on a back log of digests
>
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