SC - Apicius and Fried Chicken

[david friedman]

At 11:58 PM -0400 8/31/98, Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
>While there is a recipe in my Apicius (edited by Joseph Dommers Vehling) that
>calls for cooking chicken in oil, I think, it is nothing like my idea of fried
>chicken

Have you checked Vehling's recipe against the Latin original or the later
translation? I gather (from other people who know more about Apicius than I
do) that Vehling's recipes often don't have a very close connection to the
originals.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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