SC - Use of tofu in period.. recipes??

[maddie teller-kook]

Thanks!!!
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Subject: Re: SC - Use of tofu in period.. recipes??


>> maddie teller-kook wrote:
>
>> I had a question from a friend concerning use of tofu in period. I
>> found references for it (seems it goes back to the Tang period in the
>> 10th century... according to Trager in the Food Chronology).  Just
>> wondering if any one knows of period recipes using it.
>
>The 14th-century [?] cookery text of Ni Tsan, translated in the latest
>PPC, seems to make no mention of it. Gluten, yes, but no dow fu. I
>believe there are textual references to the food existing and being
>eaten, but I don't recall anything that could be described as a recipe,
offhand.
>
>Somewhere I have a book on ancient Chinese culinary poems and other
>texts and quotations. I'll see if I can find it.
>
>Adamantius
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>Phil & Susan Troy
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