SC - Re: Period cookshop at Pennsic?

[david friedman]

At 12:09 PM -0400 8/29/00, Elaine Koogler wrote:
>margali wrote:
>
>>  Bean paste as in my homemade adzuki paste that I use to fill dumplings?
>>  or something like cooked and pasted soybeans?
>
>I'm not sure.  Paul responded that they substituted semolina flour 
>for the bean
>paste as they felt that that is what the original recipe really wanted...they
>only specified bean paste as they may not have been able to get 
>durum.  Also, he
>said that they were not able to get the bean paste to work properly when they
>tried it.

That sounds like a pretty clear case of fudging the evidence to make 
it fit the hypothesis. If the recipe says bean paste, and they can't 
get it to work with bean paste, they are doing something wrong. 
Demonstrating that it is a proto-baclava by altering the recipe until 
it works as a proto baclava is cheating, to put it mildly.
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