goat-msg – 12/14/17 Period goat dishes. Cooking goat. Recipes. NOTE: See also the files: butch-goat-art, lamb-mutton-msg, roast-pork-msg, sausages-msg, stews-bruets-msg, venison-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 16:45:05 EST From: LrdRas Subject: SC - Goat Recipe Goat in the Style of the Bahgdad Cookery Book Copyright 1997 by L. J. Spencer, Jr.) Serves 150. 2 goats, deboned, meat cubed 20 lbs. onion, chopped 4 bunches fresh coriander, chopped 4 heaping tablespoons ground cumin 3 cps olive oil Salt to taste 2 tablspoons graound black pepper 1 gal. vinegar (I used cider vinegar because date vinegar was unavailable) Water to cover Heat oil in a deep four burner pan. Add onions and fry, stirring often until translucent. Add meat cubes. Brown on all sides. Add remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil; reheat to simmer. Cook for several hours until meat is tender and liquid reduces to almost nothing. Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve with flat bread. (May also be served over rice.) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:02 EST From: LrdRas Subject: Re: SC - Goat Recipe << approximately how much meat does one get from two goats, please?? >> aproximately 20-30 lbs. For the purpose of experimentation it would safe to assume that each person recieved approximately 1/4 lb. of meat more or less.... Since I showed up at the event with the goat meat already done and "eyeballed it, so to speak, a good place to start would be a half onion per lb of meat. I wrote things down for the recipe as I went along having only the original ( which I will post when I find it.) to work from at the event. Sorry for the mass recipe. :-) Ras Date: Mon, 23 Mar 98 02:09:31 PST From: "Alderton, Philippa" Subject: Re: SC - Specialty meats (was re: white shield feast) Hey, Stefan, We had a bit of a thread on goat a while back. Here is one of the recipes I collected.: Good day to all, from Allegra Beati. My version of the following recipe, from Platina, has been a huge success both in the SCA and even among my very non-SCA family. The recipe calls for kid, but I remember seeing something in my studies of humoural theory in period that lamb is an acceptable substitute for kid. Boneless leg of lamb is easily obtained in Albuquerque, NM (I get mine at Costco, the price varying a little throughout the year), and I use that in this version. Obtaining the baby goat is a problem (unless you want to order the entire 35-pound critter). I've heard rumors of goat being traditional to some hispanic festivals here in the Rio Grande Valley, but I'm unaware of the time of year these festivals take place and which markets are most likely to carry goat. It's a shame-- I love both goat and lamb! I'm sorry that I can only give you the recipe as translated-- I cook like the recipes read. I'm not a "measuring" cook by any means, although since starting a cookery group here, I've been making a habit of writing down procedures and quantities for future reference (and future cooks!) I suppose that means I'll have to make this dish again soon.... Making the leg of lamb in advance for a camping event is quite simple-- I wrap the cooked roast in foil, seal-a-meal it, and stick it in the freezer. I also put the cooked juices in a plastic container, and freeze them as well. At the event, I allow time for the frozen lamb to thaw, and then slice it and warm it in a covered dutch oven with the saved juices. Although I don't have a copy here, I've always used the general temperature and timetable instructions for lamb as given in _The Joy of Cooking_. >From _De Honesta Voluptate_, by Platina (Mallinckrodt edition): KID IN GARLIC Grease a whole kid or the fourth part of one, with lard and cleaned garlic cloves; put it on a spit and turn it near the fire. Baste it often with sprigs of bay leaf or rosemary and the sauce which I am about to describe. Take verjuice and the rich juice of the meat, the yolks of two eggs well beaten, two cloves of garlic well pounded, a dash of saffron and a little pepper and mix this all together and pour it into a dish. With this (as I said), you baste what you are cooking. When it is cooked, put it into a dish and pour part of the sauce over it and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. This food, when it is well cooked, should be served quickly and not let cool. phlip at morganco.net Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:11:33 EST From: LrdRas Subject: SC - Goat stefan at texas.net writes: << I don’t remember goat being mentioned very much before here.>> Actually goat has been mentioned several times in this forum. The Middle east, Greece, and Western Europe immediately come to mind. <> al-Baghdadi has savral recipes specifically calling for the use of "kid" and many recipes which specify "meat" generically. The generic "meat" can be camel, goat, lamb, mutton or whatever. <> It should also be available at any of a number of Middle Eastern or Greek specialty markets, your local livestock auction or through newspaper adds under the heading "Livestock" (which is where I got the two that I used for my Middle Eastern feast. <> Ras Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:50:30 -0800 From: david friedman Subject: Re: SC - Feast Slaughtering At 8:45 PM -0500 3/20/98, LrdRas wrote (in re some goats): >All in all it was an educational experience but I think that whenever budget >allows, I would rather let the butcher do his job. > >Ras Reminds me of a story... One of the active people in my last group is a wholesale butcher. We were doing a cooking workshop, and I wanted to try the recipe for roast kid (i.e. young goat) from Platina, so I asked him if he could supply us one. Sure, no problem. Was he coming to the workshop? Probably. "Well", I said, "let me know if you won't be coming, and I will drive out Friday and pick it up." At the time, my sister Johanna shared the house with us. She does not believe in eating red meat. Friday, while I was out shopping for the workshop, Johanna answered the doorbell to find a stranger (one of my friend's employees) on the doorstep with a bloodstained apron and a large object in his arms. "Lady, where do you want your goat?" When I got home, my sister informed me tartly that the next time I arranged for large dead animals to be delivered to the house in my absence, she would appreciate some warning. Elizabeth Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:29:09 EDT From: Mordonna22 at aol.com Subject: Re: SC - Goat roast help requested cnevin at caci.co.uk writes: > I've offered to do a goat roast for some friends and take along the sauces I > made at the Shire workshop last weekend. Have the goat, but have never > cooked this particular beastie myself before. I understand it can be tough. > Does anyone have any advice or pointers? Should I boil it for a while before > roasting or what? > > Lucretzia My suggestion would be to cut into quarters, rub well with oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and herbs, cover with aluminum foil, pierce the foil several times, and roast slowly over your favorite flavor of hardwood. Mordonna Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:42:19 -0700 From: "Wanda Pease" Subject: Re: SC - Goat roast help requested My household has a tradition of doing a goat roast every summer (mildly evil reason). Since one member has a rosemary tree (yes, TREE, no bush has any right to be _that_ big!), and we all have a passion for garlic, we larded the meat with both rosemary and garlic slivers, marinated it in vinegar/pepper/honey for a day, and then cooked it slowly in a browning bag. It was supposed to be cooked on a grill, but we're in Portland, Oregon, and sunshine in early summer is a problematic thing. Came out Yummy! Regina Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:28:14 EST From: LrdRas at aol.com Subject: SC - Recipe 8-Weekend of Wisdom This recipe was problematical from the beginning. I was unsure whether the almonds that were soaked in the water were to be used for the almond milk or not but considering the further instructions regarding frying them, I chose to interpret this as another part of the recipe. My decision was based on the fact in my experience toasted almonds simply do not make acceptable almond milk. Elysant made the pastry for this recipe with things at hand and it was very flaky and tasty. The pies were served near the end of the feast so a lot was returned to the kitchen. This was not a problem because a line of people showed up asking if they could take the pies home with them so that in the end none were left. I was very disappointed in this recipe because the goat meat came from 2 different animals. Animals that apparently were not the same age. The finished product contained both very tender pieces of meat and less tender ones. Over all the flavor was wonderful and I would recommend this dish if you can get meat from a single animal or at least ones that are close to the same age. GOAT (Editor's Note: Goat in Winter) (redacted from a recipe in Traite de Cuisine [c. 1300 CE] from A. Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Cookbooks, Vol. II, ed. Duke Sir Cariadoc of the Bow. Translation by Janet Hinson) Redaction copyright 1999 L. J. Spencer, Jr. Original recipe: Loin of goat should be roasted or served in pastry, lightly larded, with hot pepper or garlic sauce. In winter, prepare with garlic and cinnamon and ginger, moistened with milk of almonds, the almonds moistened with warm water, and fried in lard or baconfat, and the sauce inside. 2 lb. Goat, cubed 1 Pie shells and tops 4 cloves Garlic 1/2 tsp. True cinnamon, ground 1/4 tsp. Ginger, ground 1 cp. Almond milk 1 handful Whole almonds, soaked in warm water, drained 2 T Lard Salt to taste Mash garlic. Mix garlic, cinnamon, ginger and almond milk together. Salt to taste. Parboil goat cubes for 15 minutes. Drain. Drain soaked almonds. Melt lard in a pan and fry almonds until golden brown. Put parboiled goat cubes into shell. Pour one cup almond milk mixture over top of each pie. Sprinkle with almonds. Put on cover crust, sealing edges well. Make a small vent hole in the top of each crust. Using the trimmed edges of the dough, make fanciful shapes and decorate the top of the pie with the shapes, sealing with water. Bake at 350 deg F until crust is a golden brown. Ras Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:53:55 -0500 From: "Richard Kappler II" Subject: Re: SC - Glazed Lamb with garlic and rosemary For all who asked: Haedus in Alio (glazed Leg of Lamb (or kid) with Garlic and Rosemary Pleyn Delit 102 (Platina 6) Grease a kid or a quarter of one with lard and cleaned garlic cloves; put it on a spit and turn it by the fire. Baste it often with sprigs of bay or rosemary and the sauce I shall now describe. Take verjuice and the juice of the meat, the yolks of two eggs well beaten, two cloves of garlic well pounded, a pinch of saffron and a little pepper, and mix this and pour into a dish. With this (as I said) you baste what you are cooking. When it is done, put it in a dish and pour some of the sauce over it and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. cooking notes: Since the verjuice I ordered a couple of weeks ago is not yet in, and I had much else going on, plus other recipes to redact, I just cooked the roast exactly as Hieatt et al redacted in Pleyn Delit. Basically what you do is set the oven at 450, coat the roast with olive oil (lightly), rub with a clove of garlic and put it in the oven. Ten minutes later, reduce heat to 325. With mortar and pestle, powder 1/2 tsp rosemary, 1/4 tsp black pepper and a goodly pinch of saffron. Once this is well powdered, add two garlic cloves and make it into a paste, then add two well beaten egg yolks and juice of 1/2 a lemon. About 35 minutes after the lamb went into the oven, take it out, add drippings to your sauce, mix well, paint the lamb with the glaze, throw it back in the oven. Repeat every 15 minutes, adding drippings to sauce before basting/painting, until lamb reaches an internal temp of 150. At this point, turn the oven off, but leave the roast in until ready to serve. When you take the roast out, add all the drippings to your sauce, mix well, pour over roast, sprinkle with parsley, slice and serve. YUMMY! regards, Puck Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:03:09 -0700 From: david friedman Subject: Re: SC - Herbs for spit-roasting meat? At 4:37 PM -0400 10/9/00, harper at idt.net wrote: >It seems to me that sometime, somewhere, I read that one way to >flavor spit-roasted meat was to thwack it with bundles of herbs >while it was roasting. Does anyone know if this was done in >period? And where references to it might be? > >Lady Brighid ni Chiarain There is a Platina recipe where you are using the herbs to baste a roast kid (yes, I mean young goat) with a sauce; here it is. Kid in Garlic Platina Book 6 p. 97 (Falconwood edition) Grease a whole kid or the fourth part of one, with lard and cleaned garlic cloves; put it on a spit and turn it near the fire. Baste it often with sprigs of bay leaf or rosemary and the sauce which I am about to describe. Take verjuice and the rich juice of the meat, the yolks of two eggs well beaten, two cloves of garlic well pounded, a dash of saffron and a little pepper and mix this all together and pour it into a dish. With this (as I said) you baste what you are cooking. When it is cooked, put it into a dish and pour part of the sauce over it and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. This food, when it is well cooked, should be served quickly and not let cool. Elizabeth/Betty Cook From: "Glenn Crawford" To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Question to the group.... Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:58:26 -0400 I found these recipes in an on-line cookbook "a Gode Boke" http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm I don't know if it is a true medieval cookbook or not but it worked for me. Half Kede Rosted with Green Sauce [This "Kede Rosted" is from Harleian MS 4016.] 4 to 6 pound kid or lamb roast 1/2 C wine vinegar Salt to taste 1. Preheat oven to 450=B0. 2. Place roast on a rack in a roasting pan, fat side up, and put in oven. Immediately reduce heat to 325=B0. Roast for thirty minutes per pound or until internal temperature reaches 180 degrees. 3. Carve the roast, and put the meat into a serving dish. Sprinkle with vinegar and salt before serving. Green Sauce for Lamb [This is from Ashmole MS 1429] 1 C wine vinegar 1/2 C finely minced scallions 1/2 C finely minced parsley 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp powdered ginger 1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, and allow to marinate for about an hour before serving. Serve over lamb cut into bite-sized pieces. Yields one cup of sauce. Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:54:33 -0500 From: "a5foil" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Goats To: "Cooks within the SCA" > Is goat period? Well, um ... lots of recipes for kid in 14th century Catalunya. Cynara Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:23:56 -0500 From: "Martin G. Diehl" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Goats To: Cooks within the SCA The Borg wrote: > Is goat period? Platina; "On Right Pleasure and Good Health"; "The chapters of the Fourth Book" (Quarti Libri Capitula) 24. On she-goat and kid (24 De capra et haedo) "The chapters of the Sixth Book" (Sexti Libri Capitula) 25. Kid in garlic (25 Haedus in allio) "On a spit over a fire turn a whole kid or a quarter, with bits of lard and cloves of clean garlic stuck all around it. Moisten frequently, with sprigs of bay or rosemary, with the seasoning which I will now describe. With verjuice and rich sauce, mix two well-beaten egg yolks, two well-pounded cloves of garlic, a bit of saffron, and a little pepper and put into a pan. Then, as I have said, sprinkle it on what is cooking, and when it is cooked, put in a dish, and pour in part of the sauce, then sprinkle with finely cut parsley." .. and ends with the admonition, "This dish, well-cooked, ought to be eaten quickly so it does not get cold." Obviously not a SCAdian ... he knows nothing about how the pace of an event can deviate from his expectations. My hardcover copy of Platina was translated by Mary Ella Milham -- I purchased my copy from Poison Pen Press http://www.poisonpenpress.com/ while attending the Guilded Pearl event held at the Barony of An Dubhaigeainn. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Fisher" > To: "Cooks within the SCA" > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Goats > >> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 21:20:09 -0600, Lisa >> wrote: >>> *snip* >>> >>>> While I think them tasty as kid and will bow to their >>>> prowess in removing unwanted vegetation goats do >>>> occasionally present problems. What problems you ask? [snip] >>>> Daniel >>> *snip* >>> lol aye, they do like to climb, especially on cars. >>> And yes they do leave nasty dents and also scratches >>> ... but if you're not around cars, like out in a >>> backyard, they're great :) >>> >>> Lady Elizabeta of Rundel >> >> If the goat dents your cars, eat it. >> Cadoc > From Platina; "On Right Pleasure and Good Health"; Book IV, Chapter 24. On she-goat and kid (24 De capra et haedo) "Their gnawing is deadly to a tree, and, by licking, they also make the olive barren, which is why they are sacrificed to Minerva. Do not eat the meat of a she-goat or smelly he-goat. Eat kid, for nothing else is considered more nourishing among the domestic animals, for it has little indigestible residue in it, is easily digested, nourishes well, generates good blood, balanced between warmth and coolness" I am, Lord Vincenzo Martino Mazza, -- Martin G. Diehl Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:55:22 -0500 From: Daniel Myers Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Goats To: Cooks within the SCA On Nov 7, 2004, at 2:22 PM, The Borg wrote: > Is goat period? In a word, yes. Here are a few goat recipes I found on a quick search: Forme of Cury Egurdouce. XXI. Tke Conynges or Kydde and smyte hem on pecys rawe. and frye hem in white grece. take raysouns of Coraunce and fry hem take oynouns parboile hem and hewe hem small and fry hem. take rede wyne suger with powdour of peper. of gynger of canel. salt. and cast þrto. and lat it seeþ with a gode quantite of white grece an serue it forth. Brewet Of Almony. XX.II. VII. Take Conynges or kiddes and hewe hem small on moscels oþer on pecys. parboile hem with the same broth, drawe an almaunde mylke and do the fleissh þewith, cast þerto powdour galyngale & of gynger with flour of Rys. and colour it wiþ alkenet. boile it, salt it. & messe it forth with sugur and powdour douce. Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco (L. Smithson, trans.) LII - Pastry of kid good. To make pasty of meat of kid take the meat and cut small and make the crust and put inside the meat with powdered cinnamon and pieces of lard; then when it is cooked put in broth and rose water and let it boil together. LXXXI - Green sauce for kid and other boiled mats. Take parsley and ginger and cloves and cinnamon flowers and a little salt and pound every thing together and temper with good vinegar; make that it is temperate and they won't want to wait to taste. Le Menagier de Paris (J. Hinson, trans.) AN HERB MEAT DISH FOR FOUR PEOPLE. If you have killed a goat, you can make a dish of the first stomach (and the other stomachs?), etc., in yellow sauce with bacon and liver, lungs, pluck and other tripes. Cook them very well in water, then chop with two knives a for puree, and chop them up very small, or grind them in the mortar with sage or mint, etc., as above. Wel ende edelike spijse (C. Muusers, trans.) Kid and lamb. Cut in small pieces and boil them in wine. Add parsley and bacon enough, chop it finely. Add] enough saffron, ginger [and] cinnamon to it, and egg yolks fried in it. Eat them with green sauce. - Doc Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:48:36 -0800 From: "Nick Sasso" Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Any good Lamb recipes? To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" I have a great recipe from "Neopolitan Cuisine" (Scully) that is intended got kid, but I substituted Lamb. It is a braised, stewy thing that I served over/with a starch. Three separate thickeners, and it was spectacularly rich and filling. It cooks VERY well in a table top roaster in a few hours. You can find it webbed with original text, Scully's translation, and my version .at: http://franiccolo.home.mindspring.com/ carne_de_capretto_in_tegamo_alla_fiorentina.html I prepared it for 170 or so at an event and nothing came back. It converted several avowed lamb despisers as well. The melded flavors are greater than the sum of its parts. Monchalet: http://franiccolo.home.mindspring.com/monchalet_forme_of_curye.html niccolo difrancesco Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:53:34 -0500 From: "RUTH EARLAND" Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: cooking with kids To: Well, the goat ones, anyway. We've served kid at feast before. All I can say: use common sense. Goat is a fairly lean meat. You need to be careful to keep it from drying out. Lamb is a fairly good analagous meat, except for the fact that commercially available lamb usually contains more fat than goat. Look at the cuts you are going to use. If it has enough fat, you can probably roast it, but if it's typical, braising, stewing, or otherwise cooking in liquid is a good idea. Look to cultures that routinely incorporate goat for inspiration. A lot of the modern recipes for goat call for long, slow cooking in liquid. Berelinde Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:40:45 -0400 From: Johnna Holloway Subject: [Sca-cooks] NYT article on goats To: Cooks within the SCA The New York Times carried an article yesterday on grass fed goats being provided for sale for meat. "With Goat, a Rancher Breaks Away From the Herd" It lists sources for goat meat and discusses the differences. Johnnae Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:55:27 -0400 From: Johnna Holloway To: Cooks within the SCA Subject: [Sca-cooks] new title: Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese Back in February, we discussed on the list the problems with finding sources for goat meat. (We've also discussed goat cheeses in the past too.) I came across a new book on the topic yesterday which people may find interesting. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $29.95) It came out this month. Description reads: "From appearances at the most high-end restaurants to street food carts coast-to-coast, goat meat and dairy products are being embraced across the country as the next big thing. With its excellent flavor, wide-ranging versatility, and numerous health benefits, goat meat, milk, and cheese are being sought by home cooks. And while goat is the world?s primary meat (upwards of 70 percent of the red meat eaten around the world is goat) never before has there been a cookbook on this topic in the United States. Goat is a no-holds-barred goatapedia, laugh-out-loud cooking class, cheesemaking workshop, and dairy-milking expedition all in one." Amazon is pairing it with another book called Getting Your Goat: The Gourmet Guide by Patricia A Moore from 2009. Johnnae Edited by Mark S. Harris goat-msg Page 12 of 12