[Sca-cooks] Still Alive?

[Elizabeth Caldwell]

Greetings all!

What are some of your favorite period foods to cook at Pennsic?   Mine is a simple beans and rice.

>From the Neapolitian Recipe Collection<http://quod.lib.umich.edu/g/genpub/4120161.0001.001/189?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=kidney>:
Kidney Beans. Cook the kidney beans in pure water or in good broth; when they are cooked, get finely sliced onions and fry them in a pan with good oil and put these fried onions on top [of the beans] along with pepper, cinnamon and saffron; then let this sit a while on the hot coals; dish it up with good spices on top.
I also make a saffron rice for a base.   It's delicious and I make it a lot, even at home.

-Lady Isabella D'Angelo