Today, I would like to make a bean dish. I am researching old viking folklore in order to find out whether there are any of the stories that mention any particular food, such as for example beans.
I have found a good website, a BBC HIstory Site, which mentions viking food:
"With no fridges or freezers our Viking family has to take special measures to stop their food going bad. Meat and fish can be smoked or rubbed with salt. Fruit can be dried; grains are made into bread or ale. Dairy produce such as milk is made into cheese. Cooking the meat will make it last a little longer, making sausages will make it last longer still.
At sunset the family gather together in the long house. The usual evening meal will be enlarged tonight because it is one of the three Viking feast nights. In their homelands a horse would have been sacrificed to the old Gods. Horsemeat was spitted and roasted rather like a kebab. Sven and his family nominally follow the Christian faith, however, so although they celebrate the traditional feast, tonight they will dine on roast lamb. There will also be salted fish and pork, goat and plenty of fresh bread. For dessert the Vikings will eat fresh fruit and a little honey on buttered bread."
Read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/food_01.shtml
Nevertheless, this site does not mention anything about vikings eating beans.
This next site:
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/food.shtml
informs us that vikings did eat fava beans, but silly me, black beans come from southern Asia, so not a staple viking dish. Perhaps my black bean dish is better suited for an Asian fairy tale recipe.
I must however, first of all remember to soak these black beans overnight.
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