SC - Are creations period?

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:45:30 -0400 renfrow at skylands.net (Cindy Renfrow)
writes:
>Hello!  Of course the medieval cook improvised, and he expected other
>readers of the cookbook to improvise too. We have proof of this in
recipes
>that say 'use such-and-such, or if you don't have any, use what you 
>think best'.
> But  your original question was "If I have period ingredients and mix
them
> in the restrictions of the cooking styles of period, but do not base it
> on any period recipe, is it period?".  The short answer to that
question
>is 'maybe, but I can't prove it'.
>Yours in haste,
>Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
>renfrow at skylands.net
>Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of
15th
>Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
>http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/

In other words: If you can't document it, it is not "period".

Korrin S. DaArdain
Kingdom of An Tir.
Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com

(Quietly beating my head against the rock for no apparent reason.)

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