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[Jenne Heise]

> I don't know how true it is that professional cooks outside of towns
> were guild members, but certainly cooks worked with other cooks and
> learned from them, and there's at least the theoretical possibility that
> a specific technique could be passed from one generation of cooks to
> another, just as parents pass recipes to children. Of course, there's no
> guarantee quantities have never been forgotten, changed or tweaked over
> the generations, either, especially when different numbers of people
> were being served each time.

And of course we get into the question of whether this applies to written
recipes-- if you had learned the recipe from someone else in your guild
training, why would you be looking it up in a written copy?

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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