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In a message dated 8/30/99 10:10:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

<< My good lord husband recently gifted me with the book SEVEN CENTURIES OF 
 ENGLISH COOKING: A Collection of Recipes by Maxime de la Falaise.
 This is from the back of the book. >>

Be very careful with this book.  While she is much more scrupulous about 
listing the source, and often includes the original recipe, she makes a lot 
of substitutions, omissions, and additions in her modern versions.  As an 
example, she has a recipe entitled "Green pea soup with onions" or some such, 
which she interprets as a green pea soup with sauteed onions and *green 
beans*.  The original she's working from is Longe wortes de pesoun, which is 
a pea soup with chopped up greens and onions.  Apparently she decided that 
"wortes" were green beans and didn't realize that green beans weren't used in 
European cookery at the time of this recipe.  She also adds an egg binder and 
a variety of spices unnamed in the original to her "hedgehogs or yrchuns" 
recipe.  
I find the book mostly useful for the originals, and occasionally for cooking 
techniques or times, but compare the original and modern versions very 
carefully, and don't expect her to have followed the original closely.

Brangwayna Morgan
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