SC - The Potato Recipe

[Robyn Probert]

> Balldrich BallBarian BoulderBain wrote:
>
> >         Please consider this:  If we can cook without writing everything
> down so
> > did period cooks.  If we keep secrets about ingredients and how we use them
> > so did period cooks.  If we experiment with available food stuffs and
> > spices and methods of cooking so did period cooks.  How else did they ever
> > come up with something "new" and wonderful for us to try?  Do not discount
> > cooks like us, we are not first in this field, we just glean whats left.
> >         Balldrich BallBarian BoulderBain, M.S.C.A. and
> >         Feast -o-Crat.
> >
>
> I must agree.  I learned more about cooking from a Czech granmum who couldn't
> read
> english than by picking up a cookbook and reading a recipe.  Whose to say most
> cooks
> didn't learn by having someone else show them how to do it? Especially those
> who
> couldn't read.
>

My great aunt never uses a measuring cup for anything.  I watched her make "homemade noodles" and was completely amazed at how well they tasted with how she "measured" things out to make the dough.

Dierdre

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