SC - Help for Novices - was Recipes 5 & 6

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius commented: 
> What we used to do was all
> the prep but very little actual cooking, setting up the necessary
> ingredients for various Chinese dumplings with three or four different
> fillings, pots of boiling water, soup stock, fresh and fried noodles,
> steamers for breads and dumplings, a wok or three, various condiments
> and pickles, and lots of fresh fruit. People could come and make their
> own dumplings (in some peculiar and amusing shapes, too), in short, play
> with their food and eat it, too, 

Did you give any instructions on how all these ingredients were supposed
to be put together? Or were you presenting your version of Master
Cariadoc's "Period cooking is not just using period ingredients".

If you gave me all those ingredients without at least a bit of instruction,
it might be edible (or maybe not) but I doubt that it would resemble
anything your wife or mother-in-law would consider chinese food.

Stefan
(Okay, now I see you did give demos on rereading this. But you get my
illustration, I hope)

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