SC - "personal recipies"

[SigridPW@aol.com]

Ras answered Clarissa with:
> macdj at flash.net writes:
> << This is not laziness. I have done the research and applied it to a
>  particular situation in a particular way as ANY cook in ANYTIME would do.
> 
>  Clarissa >>
> 
> I agree but I think that you will agree that at best these creations can only
> be labeled as period-like..not period.

Ras, just what IS your definition of a 'period' recipe vs. one which is
only 'period-like'? I think it is very difficult to draw a hard and fast
line like you seem to be trying to do. It is a graduated scale from one
end to the other. By the strictest accounts, NONE of what we do is a
period dish. Even yours. Our cooking techniques and equipment differs,
the spice quality is unknown, sometimes we can only guess whether the
recipe means the stalk or the leaves, sometimes even the raw ingredients
have changed as the arguements here over pigs and lemons and lettuce etc.
have shown. The end result is that is probably impossible to produce a
modern recreation period dish that "has not changed one iota" from the
original period dish.

All we can do is try out best within various constraints and situations
to produce as close a period dish as possible. To call any cook lazy
because they don't meet your exacting standards is counterpoductive,
and from what I've seen from you beneath you.

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