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 Located in Seattle, Washington, the Madrone Culinary Guild is a group of people interested in the History of Food from Rome to the Renaissance, with a primary focus on the food of Western Europe. Some of us are chefs, some of us are culinary historians, some of us just like to hang out with fun people and eat good food.

The Guild is extremely active with two or more meetings each month, one to discuss current projects, and another where we get together and try to recreate dishes working from actual historical recipes. Among other projects we try to cook at least one historical banquet per year, we host an email list for the discussion of culinary matters, and we produce a series of small pamphlets on various historical cuisines.

Silk Road Banquet 2003

 

A sample recipe:

Another Tabahajiyya  from An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century
Translated by Charles Perry (Webbed by David Friedman):
Cut the meat up small and fry with oil and salt, and when it is brown, cook it until done with vinegar. Pound a handful of almonds or walnuts and thrown them on and boil a while. Take pomegranate juice and dissolve in it a lump of sugar to get ride of its tartness, and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Translation © Charles Perry


Pomegranate Chicken per the Madrone Culinary Guild
Ingredients:
3/4 lb boneless, skinless chicken
1/2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup water
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup pomegranate syrup (available in specialty grocery stores)
1/4 cup vinegar
3 tbsp almonds, ground


Instructions:
Brown chicken in oil with salt.
Boil rest of ingredients (except almonds) to blend flavors.
Add chicken then simmer till sauce is thick, then stir in almonds & serve with Soldiers Couscous.
Note: if using frozen chicken, defrost & drain well first or it will be watery.
Serves 4


Recipe ©1999 Madrone Culinary Guild
 

Cooking Peasant Stew, summer 2003

 

 

 

The Madrone Culinary Guild is an affiliate of the Barony of Madrone.  For more information about the barony and the SCA click here.