SC - Another Novice Recipe Challenge

[Terry Nutter]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 5-Aug-97 Re: SC - Another
Novice Rec.. by Terry Nutter at cotton.visl 
> It's rather more likely either something to do with a difference in the
> onions (then versus now) or a difference in what they wanted from them.
> Raw onions are predominantly sharp; parboiled are predominantly sweet.
> They may have been going for the sweet effect.
> 

Yaknow, thinking about the recipe, I believe that they must have been
going for the sweet effect.  The recipe calls for powder douce, which
would be a sweet flavor.  Also, I have some *barely post* period Italian
recipes for fava beans that have them sweetened with honey, or served
sprinkled with sugar.  A sweet onion in a sweet bean paste seems
reasonable.

toodles, margaret 
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