SC - Another Novice Recipe Challenge
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Mon Aug 4 18:41:28 PDT 1997
Hi, Katerine here. Joshua asks:
>I too have seen a lot of medieval recipes that say "onions parboiled and
>minced". I notice that Katerine has chosen to reverse the order of the
>verbs in her redaction, perhaps because parboiled whole onions are REALLY
>HARD TO CHOP! The outermost layer gets really slippery and a bit slimy.
>Yet the recipes CONSISTENTLY say "ysode and ymynced" or the equivalent,
>always in that order as far as I've noticed. Any ideas?
Yup, they do, and yup, it's a ridiculous nuisance, and no, I haven't a clue.
Shouldn't be difficulty of straining them out; they strain finer stuff all
the time.
One of the great mysteries....
Cheers,
- -- Katerine/Terry
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