Christmas feasts: Medieval & Tudor revelry
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Pottage - A Very Variegated Mix of Sweet and Savoury
Pottage is a mixture of sweet and savoury. It's an acquired taste, i would say, to day. The general texture of most good pottages is a relatively sort of sge say, porridge really. You still find things like palm sugar used an awful lot in savoury dishes. And that's very similar to the kind of tastes and flavours that you're thinking of, really for mediaeval britain,. but with less chilly.
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