SC - Re: Palate Cleansers
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Mon Nov 17 21:39:05 PST 1997
At 7:13 PM -0600 11/16/97, Elise Fleming wrote:
>The conversation goes:
>
>>>I'm wondering if this was a period practice--I don't recall ever
>>>coming across something like this before. Any comments?
>
>David/Cariadoc replies:
>
>>Not as far as I know. Chiquart has entremets, but they are not palate
>>cleansers.
>
>I had thought (based on something I'd read, somewhere... Scully,
>maybe?) that the entremets were (generally) simpler foods, especially
>in taste. In that sense, a frumenty would be less exotically spiced
>than the dishes which preceded it. Wouldn't these serve in a similar
>function to a "palate cleanser"? I don't swear that all entremets were
>"bland" but I remember going back to search recipes to see that the
>concept was valid.
My lady wife informs me that in Chiquart, at least, an entremet is an
elaborate spectacle dish, ranging from a boar's head endored and armed and
with banners and spitting fire on up. I suppose it might cleanse the boar's
palate.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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