SC - Period Tomato Sauce

[Aelfwyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/14/99 1:29:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stefan at texas.net 
writes:

<< 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.
  >>

My definition of a dish that is 'period' is a dish made using an original 
recipe, using the closest possible ingredients to what may have been used so 
far as we know, and adhereing as closely as possible to the methods used to 
cook it. For instance baking things is an oven is acceptable to me boiling , 
braising, frying, simmering on a stove top is OK. Substituting celery for 
lovage could be period like . Substituing Cornish Game Hens for small birds 
could be considered period-like. 

So far as calling any particular person lazy, I did not specify any specific 
person as such. I think that sometimes, we all tke a phrase out of context 
and apply it in specifics terms when , it is rather obvious from the post 
that general terms are implied by the context. Not all cooks doing the 'sub' 
thingy or the backward redaction thingy are by any means 'lazy' but any 
serious food historian who does not exhaust all other possibilities before 
taking such a drastic step is.  

As noted time and time again there are literally hundreds of known period 
recipes to choose from either not containing offending ingredients or 
containing more easily found ingredients. I think Cariadoc's post on the 
subject says what I feel about the whole thing rather elegantly.

So far as, differences of opinions about what was it what form....well, they 
are just that. I happen to think, and have at least one documented source to 
prove, that pigs were bred large.  The other person has pictorial evidence 
which is claimed as their 'proof'. Yellow and red carrots can be grown, as 
can white beets, celery can be stressed so it is bitterer and thin of stalk, 
etc. You think that none of these things can be 'proven' and live your life 
filled with skepticism. I think that things can be anylyzed so much that no 
useful function is served. Our lives are not seperated by that big a gap in 
time and the massive biological changes you seem to suggest occured simply 
have not had enough time to manifest. Common sense and biology tells us that 
things are infinitely more similar than dissimilar. 

Anyway, I have rambled enough. My posts are for the most part not 
intentionally personal. I f you or others take them that way instead of what 
they are meant to be there is little I can do to change your thoughts. So be 
it.

Ras
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