SC - Period Recipes
Gretchen M Beck
grm+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jun 6 07:35:45 PDT 1997
Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 5-Jun-97 Re: SC - Period
Recipes by rebecca tants at servtech.c
> Just a thought - I can't imagine there not being something like this
> somewhere in all of period cooking. Aluminum foil is out, but what
> else might have been used. (My mind went straight to mexican and
> american indian cooking in corn husks and mediterranian cooking in
> grape leaves, btu I'm at a consulting job in another state and won't
> see my cookbooks again until at LEAST Sunday...)
>
In the Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy, Castelvetro mentions
roasting peaches in the coals wrapped in damp paper--"Some people eat
peaches cooked, wrapped in damp paper, and roasted in the ashes--These
really are very nice".
toodles, margaret
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