SC - your opinions, please
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Mon Jun 26 10:08:50 PDT 2000
At 1:38 PM -0400 6/26/00, Jennifer L Sweet wrote:
>question 1--- did they actually have an equivelent to hamburgers?! or is
>this just writer's license?
I don't know about Cleopatra's time, but you get recipes for what are
essentially cooked patties of chopped or pounded meat in the 13th
century Islamic cookbooks.
>now, in my celtic cookbook, a good number of the recipes have potatoes in
>them...can turnips be substituted?
I'm not sure I see the point of doing so. If you don't care whether
what you are making is period, you might as well leave in the
potatoes. If you do care, a modern recipe with turnips substituted
for potatoes is no more likely to be a period recipe than any other
modern recipe that doesn't happen to have any ingredients not
available in period. The fact that something calls itself a "celtic
cookbook" doesn't imply that the recipes are from our period--and
the existence of potatoes in recipes implies that they are not.
If you want to do period cooking, actually starting with cookbooks
written in period--some of which are currently available on the web,
including a few on my site--makes more sense than taking modern
recipes and trying to guess what their period ancestors might have
been.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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