Mr. Tea
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^luka literally dribbling onto his screen/keyboard while pawing it with buttery, salty fingersIt's delectable. It's sexual.mits irresistible.mits organismic
^luka literally dribbling onto his screen/keyboard while pawing it with buttery, salty fingersIt's delectable. It's sexual.mits irresistible.mits organismic
WELL PUKKASometimes I like to add my own black pepper to a packet of ready salted crisps. Just an ordinary shop bought pack. Made a bit special. It's like something Jamie Oliver would do isn't it? Aspirational
British food has traditionally avoided everything except salt, parsley, rosemary and thyme.
Yeah, go on Leo. Give bays a chance!I trust your judgement, will give them another chance.
Indeed.Surely not so. Posh medieval grub used lots of spices.
Surely not so. Posh medieval grub used lots of spices.
I give you Vyand Royall (aka Meat Royale)
Take wyne greke, oþer rynysshe wyne and hony clarified þerwith. take flour of rys powdour of Gyngur oþ of peper & canel. oþer flour of canel. powdour of clowes, safroun. sugur cypre. mylberyes, oþer saundres. & medle alle þise togider. boile it and salt it. and loke þat it be stondyng.
The sad thing is, they're probably about as appetising these days but also much less healthy.It’s posh though innit. School dinners in Britain circa 1976-1988, one reason chippies retained so much of my pocket money.
AIUI the medieval thing where meats were flavoured with loads of fruit, nuts and spices is a lot like the Victorian enthusiasm for curry, except that in this case it was returning pilgrims and crusaders who'd got hooked on sticking apricots and almonds and cinnamon in stuff while they were in the Middle East. It's kind of interesting that this basically died out, IIRC by the Early Modern period, except in festive food eg at Christmas, where you still get orange peel and cloves and cinnamon and raisins in everything.But yeah, exoticke spysses as a status symbol, as much as a flavouring, definitely go way back into the middle ages. And no doubt to the Greco-Roman civilization before that.