SC - Re: Help-Scottish recipes

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/10/00 12:34:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com 
writes:

>  After all, folks
>  >have been writing stuff down for a long time...
>  
>  They haven't been printing in Europe for a long time, however. And 
>  printed books are a lot less likely to disappear than manuscripts, 
>  since there are generally quite a lot of copies.

I see.  You are referring to commercially printed books, and not, let's say, 
The Book of Kells type manuscripts, which are pretty unique.  That makes 
sense, then.

>  
>  So while I agree that it is possible that there was an earlier 
>  printed cookbook that somehow vanished without a trace, I don't think 
>  it is terribly likely.

Now that you have clarified the difference for me, I don't think it is 
likely, either.

Balthazar of Blackmoor


Mr. Wizard, what happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?