Celtic meal photo diary

[the_sybil]

hatmandu passed on to drcosmos a copy of Tasting the Past by Jacqui Wood, a book of recipes from "the stone age to the present". How well he knows us. So naturally, we had to try some of them. We have started at the beginning, with a Celtic meal

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[titaniccapybara]

Can I have the recipe for the starter thingy - it looks yum.

[the_sybil]

cook and chop 1 bunch spinach, squeeze out water and return to pan. Add 2 eggs and one small tub cottage cheese. Cook, stirring, until eggs have set (the mixture was quite liquid and I found it quite hard to tell when this had happened, so settled for just cooking it a bit). Serve in bread cups.

To make bread cups, set round granite stones over/in a fire and give them some time to get really hot. Make a flour and water dough, divide into portions and press into circles. Place one circle over each hot granite stone and allow to cook for a few minutes.

[anonymous]

The bread cups are a very interesting variant on the trencher. I wonder if the Celts, like the Vikings, did a lot of eating while sitting on benches without a table in front of them.

A number of Medieval recipes involve baking meat in a flour shell. I doubt the shell was thrown away. I've tried soaking bits of it (no grass involved) to soften it, and it was still nasty, but if I was a beggar, I would have eaten it. If no people were hungry enough to eat such scraps, they probably fed them to their dogs.