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A group of us have decided to organise an old fashioned English banquet next summer. A couple of us can supply the king’s deer which is plentiful in the south at present and mutton. Pheasant too are easy to find and duck. All this would cost nothing as we supply ourselves over time and freeze until the event. So if any of you need to get rid of these pests let me no...Thanks

 

Now the tricky bit what fruits or grains or recipes not using meat would have been eaten ? I don’t think much but there must have been something or things

I will be Henry V111 as i am a fat git and will have plenty of the others wives to choose from... :)

I made a start last night but plenty more needed

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Alot of meat was ground, sugar, salt, spices and herbs were added in different quantities.

 

Also pottage was often eaten: a mix of fruit such as plums, grains and meat again sweetened and spiced.

 

Enjoy !!

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Get to the local Indian or Chinese :nerd:

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Dear Andrew... you sent me this PM?

 

I don't understand Andrew. can you confirm this was supposed to be a PM for me or Corydorus?. I think you meant to have sent this to corydorus.....I do hate S**T stirers . I am sure corydorus can have his own view without you telling him by PM

 

Sent Today, 07:06 PM

http://www.anglersne...nglish-banquet/

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http://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec.html

 

http://medievalcookery.com/recipes/index_england.html

 

Happy feasting :D

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As old Henry means that your menu will be pre Columbian exchange, your options are going to be a bit limited.

Lots of obscure herbs and spices would have been in use back then - we hadly use sumac anymore.

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Dear Andrew... you sent me this PM?

 

I don't understand Andrew. can you confirm this was supposed to be a PM for me or Corydorus?. I think you meant to have sent this to corydorus.....I do hate S**T stirers . I am sure corydorus can have his own view without you telling him by PM

 

Sent Today, 07:06 PM

http://www.anglersne...nglish-banquet/

 

Come on down Cory, he will put you right, LoL

 

 

Not **** stirring, just an observation. If you have taken it as that then i do offer my apologies.

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Beans, peas, and greens would make sense - probably cooked with some sort of meat (ham for instance) added for flavour.

 

Depending on the time period you want, potatoes would be usual for the late 1700s as would foods & spices brought in from the various colonies.

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Peas and lentils would be fine but beans are from the new world.

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Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

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