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In a message dated 8/28/00 3:43:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

<< Understand...I don't know quantities...like the medieval cook, I've been 
doing
 this so long that I just dump until it looks right!) >>

What evidence do you have to support this supposition? The fact that we do 
not have written amounts in extant recipes does not indicate that period 
cooks did not know what amounts were meant. It indicates, IMO, that period 
cooks knew exactly what amounts to use and therefore saw no need to write 
them down.

Ras
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