SC - competition entry

[Lillian Johnston]

Well, the only comment i might make on the cleaning solution bit is this:
People will always use things for other than their unintended purposes. If
you don't believe me, hit this website
http://www.wackyuses.com/
margali
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From: jeffrey stewart heilveil <heilveil at students.uiuc.edu>
To: Bucatar-sef <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 12:38 PM
Subject: SC - verjuice


>I have this calendar called "forgotten english" by Jeffrey Kacirck, and it
>has an entry on verjuice that I found interesting.  Unfortunately, the
>calendar doesn't come with documentation but...
>
>"Tart medieval conconction made from an add assortment of ingredients.
>The name derives from French Vert Jus, "green juice."  Used in cooking or
>as medicine in the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, it was said to
>contain such acidic fruit juices as sour apple, grape and carb apple,
>often fermented.  Other sources say that crab juice and pork broth could
>be included.  Whatever its composition, when muxed with wine, lye and
>fuller's earth, verjuice was also a component of a cleaning solution for
>furs and woolens."
>
>comments?  Especially on the crab juice and the cleaning solution?
>
>Bogdan
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