SC - "personal recipies"

[david friedman]

>
><< To our modern taste, yes, but there are many medieval recipes which
>  add sweetening to things we would find unusual. >>
>
>Agreed, with reservations regarding the amounts of sugar some folks add as
>opposed to the amount usually  shown in household records. But you are 
>indeed
>correct that the white potato could be meant. Even today there are candy
>recipes which are based on mashed white potatoes.
>
>Ras

I have one for a choclate "truffle" which I once used to take the prize in a 
"best secret ingredient" cooking contest.  The surprising part was the 
number of people who ate the candy, and liked it, then made horrible faces 
and changed their opinion after hearing what the secret ingredient was!

Bonne


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