SC - RE: Cherry soup? Or cherry pudding?

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/20/99 1:29:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
oftraquair at hotmail.com writes:

<<  I 
 guess I was fighting the dish to be what I expected instead of what it 
 is!
 
 So, that's why getting a copy of the book is important to do this 
 redaction thing well, rather than working from individual recipes.  
 But the cherry bread pudding is lovely with cream poured over it!
 
 Bonne
  >>

Since we have no idea what the recipe was really like, your redaction is just 
as legimate and interpretation as someone elses. If you are happy with 
results, have followed the recipe faithfully, have not unduly substituted 
ingredients and did not attempt to make it conform to the non-existent 
'modern' palette then you have a bone fide redacted recipe that you can put 
your name to. For all our great pronouncements and this and thating the 
bottom line is that NOONE knows exactly what any medieval recipe  was like 
unless they find a current recipe that deviates not a sijngle iota from the 
original. We can make educated guesses but a guess is a guess.

When you make good guesses that produce good food then you are right on. :-) 
Although some people I know personally have recieved recognition and high 
awards for copying other peoples work and only using other peoples redactions 
in SCA cooking, there is much more satisfaction and a sense of real 
achievement when you persue your own research and faithfully redact your own 
recipes. In that lies true and worth. 

I think that those who wear tin hats , as well as, a few the more 
accomplished cooks here that do not will agree with me that  without 
individual work and research, the choices of already done recipes would be 
extremely limited today. I welcome any recipes I find and also create many 
from period sources. Some of those creations are entirely different than 
those that came before but , IMO and experience, just as accurate. Keep up 
the good work and post your cherry bread pudding recipe. If it is too off the 
wall, I'm sure that people will help with any points you may have overlooked. 
:-)

Ras
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