soup of pickled clams, black cod, smoked dried shrimp, scallions, mushrooms and ginger with chilled pinot gris and beaten biscuits with new butter;
small skewers of grilled chicken and duck with a spicy-sweet plum glaze over noodles in a spicy cream sauce, roast potatoes, steamed vegetables, gravy and lightly flame-grilled fresh bread with garlic-butter;
ice cream and small round pastries with sliced brandied pears, glazed flaky crusts, chopped hazlenuts and a rare spice.
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5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Another feast worthy of Nicholas van Rijn! Albeit, unless it was winter, I'm a bit surprised ICE CREAM was available in a society literally unable to use high tech forms of refrigeration.
Sean
Ice Cream is more of a luxury under such conditions, but if you have ice at all eg: by storing ice from winter in a well insulated building, you can get temperatures well below 0 C by adding salt to the ice. You have an outer chamber with the ice & salt to cool the inner chamber with the cream & flavoring.
I recall my father telling about an incident from his childhood. He grew up on a farm in Alberta before electricity was available in rural areas. One time while he and his brothers were still quite young there was hail storm and the children were delighted because that meant there ice to make ice cream.
Of course his parents must have been worried sick that the hail damaged the crops so much they would not have money to take them through the coming winter, but they went along with the idea of making ice cream since it wouldn't make the crop situation any worse.
Kaor, Jim!
I should have remembered there would be low tech means of getting some refrigeration if you really wanted or needed it!
I'm reminded of Pat Frank's novel ALAS, BABYLON (1959), one of the earliest post nuclear war novels. The view point character and his friends and his neighbors suddenly had to do without a lot of conveniences and small luxuries, including things like ice cream. Meaning a gift of honey for his nephew and niece was GREATLY appreciated.
Hope your grandparents did not lose too much of the crops!
Ad astra! Sean
Since my grandparents still had the farm well after their sons were adults, the hail damage couldn't have been too horrible.
Kaor, Jim!
Good, of course!
Ad astra! Sean
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