SC - Re: (Gunthar's Challenge)

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

At 11:27 PM -0500 3/1/00, B. M. Crumb wrote:

>There are a lot of period recipes out there that can be prepared
>substituting other liquid for the booze, beer and wine in them
>that still taste great.  Okay, so it won't be perfectly period if
>you are looking at an *exact* reproduction of a primary source
>recipe... but a GOOD cook will find logical, good tasting ways to
>make that adaptation.

I'm puzzled. Why would you want to take a period recipe that used 
beer and make it with something else, thus getting something less 
likely to be what was made in period, instead of simply choosing to 
avoid choosing period recipes that have beer (or wine) in them? It 
isn't as if eliminating the recipes which use alcohol seriously 
reduces the range of recipes available.

David/Cariadoc
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