OOP Re: SC - bread pudding

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/26/00 8:47:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com 
writes:

> << A new dish was created. >>
>  
>  Exactly. And we have no way of knowing if any 'new dishes' we create were 
>  ever created or served in the middle ages. Your position is not untenable 
>  when applied to informal cookery. However, it simply does not appear to be 
a 
> 
>  solid position when applied to formal cookery.

I'll concede on this point.  


>  Without a solid knowledge of humoral theory, such substitutions as you 
>  propose outside the Corpus simply cannot be proven as being done. You seem 
> to 
>  assume a high degree personal freedom existed during the middle ages, 
>  especially among the Guilds, which in reality was unknown.

This may be true (I am not entirely familiar with the culinary guilds of the 
middle ages), but I am laboring under the impression that a number of these 
manuscripts are not "Guild material".  Le Menagier, for instance, was written 
by a French lord for his wife, and not for "high feasts" or royal banquets.  
I am not convinced, yet, that the authors of these books were, necessarily, 
Guild members.  Of course, you may have proof to the contrary, which I would 
love to see.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.