SC - Period Recipes

[david friedman]

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gretchen M Beck wrote:

> Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 4-Jun-97 Re: SC - All Members
> by Michael Macchione at coplan 
> > I still tend to freak when I do a
> > recipe that I have no idea what the final result is supposed to be.  Thus
> > I tend to have troubles researching period cooking.  
> 
> That's interesting!  Along those lines, I'm curious--how to people here
> pick which recipes they want to try (or try to reconstruct, assuming
> they are working with period recipes)?
> 
> My, I read through recipes, and when I find one that makes me go "Yum",
> I stop and try.  I've got a strong "food imagination/memory", conjuring
> up what I believe will be the final taste, texture, and smell from the
> recipe. 
> 
> toodles, margaret 

That's pretty much what I do too.  If I just plain can't figure out
what a recipe is getting at then I just don't try it.  OTOH, my "food
imagination/memory" is not quite good enough always to be certain
exactly what the expected results will be.  Some things I try when I
only have a vague idea of what I might be getting, just because the
list of ingredients is so intriguing.

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