SC - Re: .food riddle and query
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Dec 9 20:20:33 PST 1999
Devra at aol.com wrote:
>
> .
> First, the riddle--
>
> When I recently took a course on food and the history of cookbooks from
> Andrew Smtih (History of Ketchup, etc) he said that prehistoric man had
> located or domesticated all but two of the food items currently used. One
> item he cited as added to the food group in historic times was coffee. Our
> dates on that vary, but most seem to be after the start of the Common Era.
> However, he never told us the second food item that had entered man's
> knowledge after prehistoric times. has anyone got any ideas? [One of the
> students suggested twinkies, but we pointed out that all of the things in
> twinkies--except perhaps the preservatives, but those aren't food,
> really--were known.]
One _might_ make such an argument for pasta, at least the fine stuff as
found in China and post-renaissance Italy, but I'm not sure a prepared
food counts.
>
> Second question--one of my friends would like to locate a source of powdered
> malt, like the malt that the man at the corner candystore used to put into
> the milkshake to make it into a malted. I haven't found any sources--King
> Arthur Flour sells diastolic malt, but that's not the same. Do you think
> malt syrup would work?
Spray-dried malt extract can be found at brewing supply shops. Malt
syrup would work, but you'd probably have to adjust liquid quantities
when cooking a recipe calling for powdered malt.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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