[MR] period marshmallows

[Sandi Rust]

True Yams are very large and white on the inside (I see them on occasion at the commissary). What Americans call yams are actually sweet potatoes. It was a marketing scheme back in the 1800's, I believe. Saw it on an episode of Good Eats.
Marie Hélène
 


--- On Fri, 1/14/11, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:


From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] period marshmallows
To: "Atlantia maillist" <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
Cc: feo2mouse at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 12:05 AM


Lady Marie H?l?ne replied to my suggestion that she might like *period* marshmallows with:
<<< I may consider trying these. I am always apt to try anything new as I am a very adventurous eater. The reason I don't like marshmallows or candied yams (I do love sweet potatoes or yams not candied) is because they are too sweet for my tastes.>>>

If you do, please let us know what you think. I'm not sure where to get the raw materials and I *don't* trust my foraging abilities to pick the safe things instead of the dangerous things, much less the right plant. :-)

The problem in the US is that the groceries don't always know the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. The labels are not always correct and you'll get one when the label said the other. Just like a lot of canned pumpkin pie filling isn't from pumpkins.

You might not like a lot of the Elizabethan recipes. Those folks seem to want to put sugar in *everything* including vegetables and meat! I guess it was the new rage. It still wasn't cheap, but cheaper and more common than it had been. Sugar didn't really get cheap until the sugar plantations in the New World got really going in the 17th and 18th C.

Since you say you are an adventurous eater, which of these have you tried? You might find browsing these files and the recipes interesting.

Those of you who you like your food plain and ordinary for Americans, can stop reading now. You've been warned. :-)  The following are all period dishes. I am *NOT* suggesting these as your next feast menu. :-) Or at least not a menu or only these.

Blood-Soup-art (12K) 12/26/00 "Polish Black Soup - Czarnina" by Casamira Jawjalny, O.L.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/Blood-Soup-art.html

pea-soup-msg (33K) 7/17/10 Period pea soups. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/pea-soup-msg.html

blood-dishes-msg (38K) 4/15/09 Use of blood in period foods. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/blood-dishes-msg.html

caviar-msg (14K) 4/ 3/07 Medieval caviar and fish eggs. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/caviar-msg.html

eels-msg (28K) 1/17/08 Eel dishes. Getting and cleaning eels.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/eels-msg.html

exotic-meats-msg (100K) 4/18/08 Period and SCA exotic meats. Swans, ostrich, crawfish, dormice, cat.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/exotic-meats-msg.html

frogs-msg (20K) 4/29/06 Medieval and period frog recipes. References
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/frogs-msg.html

liver-msg (46K) 1/15/08 Medieval cooking of liver. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/liver-msg.html

organ-meats-msg (102K) 9/24/10 Period cooking of organ meats, unusual parts.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/organ-meats-msg.html

rabbit-dishes-msg (64K) 12/24/06 Period rabbit and hare recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/rabbit-dishes-msg.html

tongue-msg (33K) 9/24/10 Medieval cooking of tongue. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/tongue-msg.html

whale-meat-msg (12K) 2/ 2/10 Use of whale and porpoise meat in period.Recipes. Substitutions.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/whale-meat-msg.html

My apologies if this is too off-topic or too long for this list.

Stefan
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