SC - Re: tour in time
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Fri Oct 16 02:11:05 PDT 1998
At 1:55 AM -0400 10/16/98, SigridPW at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 98-10-15 03:21:35 EDT, you write:
>
><< >I'm helping on a feast in Dreiburgen, Caid that is exactly that. First
>course
> >is Middle Eastern/ North African. Second course is Norman/French. Third
> >course is Scottish. I'm not planning it, but seems it's done and OK. Have
> >fun!
>
> Do you have any reason to believe the recipes are period? So far as I know
> there are no period Scottish cookbooks that have survived, and no period
> North African cookbooks unless you count recipes in Andalusian cookbooks.
> >>
>
>I don't know what they have for documentation, and some of the suggested
>dishes were rejected out-of-hand (tomatoes, etc.), but what I saw of the menus
>doesn't look unreasonable. I'm certain that the lack of cookbooks and recipes
>doesn't mean they didn't cook.
No--but it may mean that we don't know what they cooked, and thus cannot
reproduce it.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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