SC - whipped cream

[Mark Harris]

Lord Ras states:

>I've been reading several posts over the last few moths about the inability
>of period folks whipping this or that. IMHO, this just ain't so. Assuming
>that the strainer method was used, it would be well to remember that modern
>strainers are infinitely more coarse than the horse hair strainers used by
>medieval cooks. 

Were/Are these horsehair strainers "woven" like the ones using metal wire
that
we see today? Or were the horsehairs just laid in one direction and then in
another at ninety degrees on top of the first?  Were these used as
"strainers" 
or just for whipping?

Stefan li Rous
markh at risc.sps.mot.com

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