Posted on 05/17/2019 8:03:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Fish was well-watched by the nobility. You took a fish from a river without getting permission and you were a dead man. In fact, game was controlled as well. I know that Richard the Third was anxious to reform some of the overly-restrictive laws about salmon fishing and may have done so.
Crackpots...
No, being on FR makes you a medieval peasant.
Oh yeah? What about iceberg lettuce, smartypants?
regarding “BS, vegetables do not grow in cold snow.” this was during the medieval warm period. and one would harvest and store veggies for the winter.
no, not news, except yo AOC & old folks like me who keep fprgetting that ‘pottage’ is what today we call ‘stew.’
“The findings demonstrated that stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet.
The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet.”
Healthy diet.
One of the two fat ladies, Clarissa Dickson-Wright has good medieval food shows up on You Tube. I have about 6 books on medieval cookery including the famous Forme of Curry (Method of Cooking) which belonged to King Richard 2.
*shrug* one who does enough pot will forget. uh. what were we talking about? oh yeah, will forget what pottage means...
That reminds me of the cook who was fired for favoring curry...
Dayum! Someone actually got paid to do a study on the obvious??
They didn’t put pineapple in theirs. :^)
They only planted it in hot snow.
I sometimes enjoy it when “Time Team” put in a bit about cooking in the time period of their archaeological dig.
The pioneer ancestors used to eat a lot of the local "weeds", some of which (corn, 'maters, peppers, squash, pole beans) wound up in the world's diet, but most of which get attacked by broadleaf chems used by the hirelings of urban and suburban homeowners. :^)
Leek pottage hot.
Leek pottage cold.
Leek pottage in the pot
Nine hundred years old.
I remember a discussion of some of the 'worts that were relied on during the Little Ice Age (not sure they referred to it as that, though).
Henry VIII's Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace (not Time Team)
:^)
another American “weed”:
Pawpaws: America’s Best Secret Fruit | Serious Eats
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/what-are-pawpaws-wild-fruit-midwest-how-to-prep-and-eat-pawpaws.html
in Europe, still popular:
Medlar: The Best Fruit You’ve Never Heard Of | Root Simple
https://www.rootsimple.com/2010/12/medlar-the-best-fruit-youve-never-heard-of/
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