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!

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

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

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

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...

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.

Shame. It's a great party idea.

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?

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

:yum:

Were you happy then Grav?

"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...

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

Do WHAT to build a shelter? Fuck that!

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

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.

footfootfoot--

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

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