Medieval Recipe Advice - Page 2

Trilby · 04-27-2011, 10:29 AM

RE: the Lemon comment. I was just joshin' about the lemons. The line ("Lemons being the sweetest fruit known at the time") is Granda Simpson talking about the lemon tree in Springfield (as just another example of how tough things were back in his time). So I was being cheeky there.

RE: eating pidgeons=eating wing'ed rats!
eating lampreys and eels=eating snakes!

Yick! You really eat that stuff? Of course, I can't really claim much. Until v. recently, I ate at McDonalds. YICK!

Sundae · 04-27-2011, 10:32 AM

I might have to wear a hair net, to catch all the jokes flying over my head

Pigeons eated are NOT urban pigeons (shudder)!
You haven't lived til you've eaten jellied ells

infinite monkey · 04-27-2011, 10:32 AM

Some of the glue got stuck on the table. It was terrible.

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-02-2011, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

large racks of ribs, whole roasted chickens, ham shanks. serve big chunks of greasy meat that needs to be gnawed on. use large round bread loaves and tear off chunks. a pungent cheese round goe along nicely. for drink, use horn cups or goblets filled with mead

Sarge, that's not Medieval; that's RenFaire -- its roots are sunk in Hollywood not history.

Something more on-target might be such as these, by search on "SCA recipes":

Medieval SCA recipes

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html -- go mining through the links presented

Feast Food Recipes -- scroll down, scroll down, scroll down... main text and sidebar, looks like.

SCA Trail Bread The comparatively low 375F baking temp makes for chewy bread. I've seen this kind of thing before.

SCA Potluck

Selections from the first page -- of 1.23M hits. Go crazy!

And yeah, you can probably find recipes for lampreys or jellied eels if you look hard enough. No SCA feast or revel I've ever been to was that hardcore, though. Meat pies... a fair mess of meat pies...

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-02-2011, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

Served in bread bowls and eaten with knifes. No forks, no spoons.

Spoons, always, always. Table forks of the Middle Ages, Renaissance onward, and only spottily used at first, popular first in Italy. Two tines.

The bread bowl is a latterday mutant edition of the bread trencher -- the first sliced bread, incidentally. Loaf bread, the crusts cut away, trimmed into square, stiff slabs for pretty, usually five per diner: four in a square on the tablecloth, the fifth pyramided upon the middle of the square and stuff transferred or served to that. The pantler had a set of special knives to do the job for setting the table. They took their soups and stews in bowls back in the day. They would have been quite amused at the stew in a bread bowl, and would likely have adopted it, but I don't hear they actually came up with that one.

Kidding aside, I still take my medieval and medieval-oid food seriously.

wolf · 05-02-2011, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

OK I am calling off this thread as a singular failure of a clone thread. I was too tired to do it properly. This has never happened before. It must be stress.

Shame. It's a great party idea.

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-02-2011, 10:42 PM

And that might help with the stress.

Speaking of stress, wolf -- it's awful dang soon, but anything good on the job front? New job, any job?

Gravdigr · 05-06-2011, 03:20 PM

A crown roast always reminds me of King Arthur type times.

Sundae · 05-06-2011, 03:24 PM

Were you happy then Grav?

Gravdigr · 05-06-2011, 03:49 PM

"puts me in mind of", then.

Hells, no, I wouldn't have been happy back then.

Too lazy, not enough buttons.

ETA: Oh, and the weed!!! I bet the weed was just awful back then...

infinite monkey · 05-06-2011, 03:51 PM

I hear ya. I would've been a sucky pioneer, even.

Do WHAT to build a shelter? Fuck that!

footfootfoot · 05-06-2011, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

ETA: Oh, and the weed!!! I bet the weed was just awful back then...

yebbut it was free and the streets were paved with it.

Gravdigr · 05-10-2011, 01:16 PM

Heaven... I'm in heaven,
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
And I seem to find the happiness I seek,
When I inhale the weed that's paving the street.

BigV · 05-12-2011, 04:12 PM

footfootfoot--

Maybe you could use the woodchuck as ... stuffing? Kindling? I don't know.. but this recipe seems medieval, neanderthal even.

How to bbq a whole steer

04-27-2011, 10:29 AM	#16
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	RE: the Lemon comment. I was just joshin' about the lemons. The line ("Lemons being the sweetest fruit known at the time") is Granda Simpson talking about the lemon tree in Springfield (as just another example of how tough things were back in his time). So I was being cheeky there. RE: eating pidgeons=eating wing'ed rats! eating lampreys and eels=eating snakes! Yick! You really eat that stuff? Of course, I can't really claim much. Until v. recently, I ate at McDonalds. YICK! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

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05-06-2011, 03:24 PM	#24
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Were you happy then Grav? __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-06-2011, 03:49 PM	#25
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	"puts me in mind of", then. Hells, no, I wouldn't have been happy back then. Too lazy, not enough buttons. ETA: Oh, and the weed!!! I bet the weed was just awful back then... __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

05-10-2011, 01:16 PM	#28
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Heaven... I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak. And I seem to find the happiness I seek, When I inhale the weed that's paving the street. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

04-27-2011, 10:32 AM	#17
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I might have to wear a hair net, to catch all the jokes flying over my head Pigeons eated are NOT urban pigeons (shudder)! You haven't lived til you've eaten jellied ells

04-27-2011, 10:32 AM	#18
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Some of the glue got stuck on the table. It was terrible.

05-02-2011, 10:42 PM	#22
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	And that might help with the stress. Speaking of stress, wolf -- it's awful dang soon, but anything good on the job front? New job, any job?

05-06-2011, 03:51 PM	#26
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I hear ya. I would've been a sucky pioneer, even. Do WHAT to build a shelter? Fuck that!

05-12-2011, 04:12 PM	#29
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	footfootfoot-- Maybe you could use the woodchuck as ... stuffing? Kindling? I don't know.. but this recipe seems medieval, neanderthal even. How to bbq a whole steer __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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