SC - Substitution vs Accuracy

[David Gavin]

Sorry if this has offended,  I am still new to email and  I thought the
message had come from a private
source. It was intended as a personal humourous reply and was never intended
to insult
people.

My apologies. Dave
- -----Original Message-----
From: David Gavin <ticoyama at globalnet.co.uk>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: 25 February 1999 15:12
Subject: Re: SC - Substitution vs Accuracy


>go for it!
>
>frying pans, fire etc
>
>remember please be gentle with americans, they tend to be child like and
>don't have or generally understand history, especially european, they seem
>to think micky mouse did such things as beat the spanish on the high seas,
>wop boni on the fields and invent steam railway engines etc!
>
>opps! <G>, I guess I may upset them all now?
>
>and I would go for the first three, techniques have not really changed
much,
>the biggest changes being electricity, the microwave and the food
processor!
>upto that point food  production methods have been pritty static.
>
>what do you think?
>
>dag
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Oughton, Karin (GEIS, Tirlan) <Karin.Oughton at geis.ge.com>
>To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
>Date: 25 February 1999 14:23
>Subject: SC - Substitution vs Accuracy
>
>
>>Guys,
>>
>>I am about to open what is probably a VERY sensitive subject - please
don't
>>shout too hard!!! ( Apologies in advance in other words)
>>
>>I am not 'SCA' per se so I am not a 100% au fait with the rules about
>>accuracy to historical records. However I've noticed on a lot of occasions
>>comments in posts along the lines of 'period' 'not period' 'period-ish'.
>The
>>reason I was thinking about it recently was the discussion about cerulean
>>blue from blackberries or blueberries, and the post that suggested that
>>substitution of  blueberries would be incorrect given that the recipe
>stated
>>blackberries.
>>
>>I'm interested to know - do you have to follow the letter of an authentic
>>period recipe?  I rarely completely follow a modern recipe, and will often
>>substitute ingredients; and in my thought process, substitution of one
>>ingredient that was available in the same area/period for another does not
>>make a recipe non-period.
>>
>>I guess that I see a series of gradation ;
>>
>> - accurate to the letter of a manuscript - 'authentic documented
>>recipe'
>> - accurate to the ingredients of the period and cooking prep &
>>techniques, using an authentic recipe as a base - 'period derived recipe'
>> - accurate ingredients, recipes & techniques based on modern cookery
>>- 'period-influenced recipe'
>> - modern - modern
>>
>>I would have assumed the first two would be acceptable. Is this incorrect?
>>
>>Feel free to point me towards articles already written about this!
>>
>>ta,
>>
>>Karin.
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