Dietary Concern Charts...

I have, over some time, noticed that people have been looking at substitutions for specific ingredients in medieval recipes, but I've been wondering for years "why substitute?" and until recently, I had no idea that other people may have thought the same thing... so I started making charts..

The chart below breaks down recipes by whether or not they are meat, gluten, nut, dairy, sugar, egg or alcohol free.
There are some notes to consider before using the charts below:
-I'm only presently charting out various online texts (thus far just playing with 16th century England, because it's a fav. of mine) and am charting the recipes in order of how they were written/webbed.
-Under under the Gluten Free column, I have some notes such as on sops, or sippets and so on which notes the recipe is to be served on/with these but would otherwise be gluten free.
-Pastry: where "pie", "tart" or "pastry" may be noted, that item would not be gluten free due to this fact. However, some pies have been known in pre-16th century period texts to be made without a pastry (kinda like a casserole or in a pot)... I decided to leave the note to let the cook decide while not suggesting a modern or unknown substitute. (if that makes sense) I also noted "pastry" in other columns, this says that the 'offending' ingredients are only in the pastry.
-"butter", "marrow" and so on, Gives an option for a substitute should you wish to go down this road... while marrow does not substitute well, sometimes butter was used instead. Also, margarine does seem to work as a replacement for butter though this is not why i made these charts...
-For people concerned about gluten, please take note: if there is alcohol in the recipe, this could effect whether or not there is gluten present. While I believe wine is okay, one may have to either strike off recipes with ale or find a gluten free ale, while more than likely not period, it is possible to make gluten free beers. (in the future, I be sure to mark if ale is used)
NOTE: the format of this blog seems to edit out the last column for alcohol

a sample from:
The Good Huswives Handmaid (1594-97)
http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/ghhk/

Dish	Meat Free	Gluten Free	Nut Free	Dairy Free	Sugar Free	Egg Free	Alcohol Free
Mutton with Mallows/Turnip	no	on sops	Yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Mutton with Spinach	no	on sops	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Mutton with Carrots	no	on sops	Yes	yes	yes	yes	yes

To see the rest of this chart, please check out the dietary chart pages (menu at top of this blog)
Or follow these links:

http://compendiumhistoric.blogspot.com/p/dietary-chart-for-good-huswives.html
http://compendiumhistoric.blogspot.com/p/dietary-chart-for-good-huswives_30.html
http://compendiumhistoric.blogspot.com/p/dietary-chart-for-book-of-cookery-by-aw.html


possibly more to follow...