sca-cooks Creativity
Alys of Foxdale
foxdale at wolfstar.com
Thu Apr 10 20:00:43 PDT 1997
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Mark Schuldenfrei wrote:
> For example, SCA cooks have a tendency to say "They used X in period, so I
> can put it in my recipe". But... we use ketchup today. Would you put it in
> ice cream? Why not? Would you make a carrot sauce for lobster? How about
> adding fruit to rice?
Well, um, *I* add fruit to rice, anyway. I'm very fond of Wedding
Pilaf!
> BTW, for a fun idea on creative (non-period) cookery: next time you go to
> the grocery and get trapped in line, try to make a meal out of the contents
> of your neighbors grocery cart.... and maybe a few standard herbs, spices,
> condiments and sugar.
Oh, ewww! You've just resurrected one of my most horrible memories --
I was doing that one day and came to the conclusion that their dinner
was going to be a *strawberry* pizza! [Yes; I freely admit I'm one of
those people who are extremely childish about trying new foods ... the
first time, anyway!]
> Tibor
Alys
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