SC - Another Novice Recipe Challenge
Gretchen M Beck
grm+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Aug 5 10:29:47 PDT 1997
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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