Cooking
Period style cooking is a big part of many SCA events (feasts being one obvious example :)
Many period dishes are simple to prepare and only require ingredients that can be found in any supermarket. Remember that many foods we eat today didn't exist during period and their presence is noticable (to some people at any rate)
There are many ways to participate in recreating medieval cooking. You can join your local cooks guild, cook for a few SCA friends after redacting a medieval recipe, or cook period food over an open fire at a camping event.
Books
Several good books have been written with period and period-style (cf. Period vs. Period-Style) cooking. Among these are:
- Take a Thousand Eggs or More
- An excellent source in two volumes. The first contains originals, redactions & recipes; the second contains originals with redactions, but no modern recipes.
- A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye
- Originals & redactions from a 16th century cookbook.
- Pleyn Delit
- An excellent collection of originals, redactions & recipes. Highly recommended.
There is also the website Gode Cookery, which contains many period, period-style and periodoid recipes.
