SC - Period Beet Recipe & period quote about beets
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 19 10:25:49 PDT 1999
- --- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/18/99 8:17:35 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:
>
> << This, to my mind, kind of tells
> me, as it did to Ms. Lorwin, that the beet root was
> prefered.
>
> Huette >>
>
> Possibly. It merely tells me that Gerard himself was
> partial to beetroots.
> :-) Regarding the recipe you posted it sounds good
> but what justification is
> there for the use of Cheddar cheese? Did this cheese
> exist at that time? I
> was under the impression that cheddaring was well
> out of period. What other
> cheese would be a better choice and more periodlike?
>
>
> I am sorry for so many questions but I am singularly
> unimpressed with early
> modern cooking and sometimes either have glossed
> over many of the details or
> do not have the sources readily available to confirm
> or negate any particular
> observation or interpretation.
>
> Ras
Sigh. I had the book here at work yesterday, but I
took it home last night. Ms. Lorwin speaks about
cheese in the book. I will bring the book back to
work tomorrow with your answer.
Huette
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