SC - feastware question
Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Wed Oct 14 13:47:52 PDT 1998
In a message dated 10/13/98 11:13:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:
<< I was reading some Elizabethan mincemeat recipies. Question: Is the idea
of
mincemeat, to stretch the small amount of meat by the addition of the fruits
etc?
Phillipa >>
I would suspect that the idea of mincemeat was to preserve food. Once made
mincemeat keeps for a relatively long period of time when compared to meat in
other forms. The sugar acts as preservative.
Ras
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