SC - OT-OOP-bread help!

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Brangwayna wrote:
>> ... The recipe just specifies "good broth"; I
>>used vegetable broth because I wanted it to be a vegetarian dish. ...

and Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon replied:
>If you'd like to try period-style vegetarian cooking, consider substituting
>almond milk (and perhaps a little olive oil) for the broth. There are some
>recipes that seem to indicate that this was a fairly usual practice, such as
>"appulmose," no. II 35 in _Curye_on_Inglysch_. But I don't recall ever
>seeing a period reference to vegetable "broth."

Le Menagier de Paris (late 14th c.), in his discussion of potages,
sometimes uses almond milk instead of meat broth on a fish day, but
sometimes uses water from boiling onions or from boiling peas.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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