Re(2): SC - mustard history
Sue Wensel
swensel at brandegee.lm.com
Mon Jun 30 08:46:01 PDT 1997
> << My question about how the recipe redactors get from "draw them through
> a strainer" to "beat the egg" is still unanswered. Is this a reasonable
> redaction? Why? >>
>
> I do not feel that this is a reasonable redaction, personally, for the
> reasons I stated before. However, by a stretch of the imagination , I suppose
> one could get this impression from the resulting product of such straining.
> IMHO, the straining was meant to be a practical method of removing extraneous
> material, be it straw, manure, egg shell bits,or embryo, etc.
>
> Lord Ras
My (farm-raised) two cents - between washing the eggs and using a
separate bowl to crack them into, you can deal most every problem except
egg shells. That doesn't seem to be a sufficent reason for the common
directive to strain the eggs...
Yumitori
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