OT - Re: SC - re: digest
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Aug 31 04:43:52 PDT 1999
RuddR at aol.com wrote:
>
> Interestingly, Hieatt and Butler don't really call their redactions anything
> other than recipes they've "worked out". They use "adapted" to describe the
> work of predecessors in the field:
>
> "A third and slightly overlapping category is that of the historical
> cookbooks which present a selection of medieval recipes 'adapted' for modern
> tastes . . . frequently so drastically adapted as to be along way from
> authenticity." (Pleyn Delit, p viii)
Hey, _I'm_ not the one recommending the addition of bread crumbs to a
perfectly good cheesecake [sambucade] filling simply because the
original recipe tells us to "put in the crust" or some such.
Admittedly that was in the notorious first edition; this may have been
corrected in subsequent editions.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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