SC - Sauces query - non-member submission

[Michael F. Gunter]

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From: Paul D. Buell [mailto:tbuell2 at home.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:15 AM
To: Decker, Terry D.
Subject: Re: A Soup for the Qan...revisited


My Arab food expert tells me that there was no use of Soda as a leaven in
Medieval Arabic bread, although there are one or two strange recipes calling
for borax. If the soda in this recipe was a leaven then this is probably a
Chinese thing after all. More research needed here and I will bear this in
mind in the future. I was not alerted to the isse bu am now. Paul