SC - recipes unchanged....

[Seton1355@aol.com]

At 7:36 AM -0500 3/14/99, Seton1355 at AOL.COM wrote:
>>  Note also that, since medieval recipes usually contain no quantities, there
>is a considerable range over which you are simply making your preferred
>guess. Thus your "instead of eight eggs" implies that the original recipe
>specified eight eggs--but it probably didn't. If one egg replacer will work,
>that is evidence that one egg will work, which makes it plausible that one egg
>was what the original used.>>>
>
>Well put!!   When I cook "my own dishes". I throw in this or do that as the
>whim and mood suits, but when doing medieval cookery, I've allowed myself to
>get uptight (I guess) and not dare change anything, but I guess there really
>*is* a lot of latitude in these recipes.

"Dare not change anything" from the original, or from someone else's
redaction? I am in favor of following the original as closely as you
can--but ignoring other people's redactions if you think a different
interpretation of the original would be better.

In another post:

>because if I don't change recipes for my personal needs, I don't eat!

Are you saying that there are no period recipes that you can eat unchanged?

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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