SC - Chickpeas

[Elaine Koogler]

Balthazar skrev:

>Is there proof that a medieval cook would have substituted fish for duck,
>rather than chicken, or is this merely conjecture?

Then, Allison skrev:

>SAUCE TO BOIL IN PIES OF YOUNG WILD DUCK, DUCKLING, YOUNG RABBIT >OR WILD
>RABBIT. Take lots of good cinnamon, ginger, clove, grains, half a nutmeg
>and mace, galingale, and grind very well, and soak in half verjuice and
>half vinegar, and the sauce should be clear. ...

OK, Balthazar, this is exactly what I'm talking about. When I was using the
image of subbing in fish for duck, I was speaking hypothetically about the
matter, which, rather than exchanging one bird for another, as we as modern
people would tend to do, we might find Medieval folk exchanging a food item,
fish, which, being of the element, Water, for a bird, a duck, which again,
might be attibuted to the element of Water, regardless of our modern
taxonomic definitions. Instead, Allison provides us with a recipe in which
rabbits are considered interchangeable with ducks. Why? I don't know, but
this is a perfect example of why our modern logic might avail us naught in
attempting to use substitutions for the ingredients specified.

Thanks, Allison, I owe you one ;-) You definitely saved me some research and
typing.

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
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