SC - Two Questions and Advice

[LrdRas@aol.com]

And it came to pass on 7 Mar 00,, that Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:

> Since I am deathly allergic to dairy, can I use rice milk instead?  Or how
> about alomond milk?

I have never cooked this particular recipe, but looking at it, I don't see 
why almond milk would not work perfectly well.  Almond milk was used 
as a period substitute for real milk, not only in Lent, but also when milk 
was simply unavailable.  There are a couple of recipes in de Nola where 
he instructs the reader to use milk (usually goat or sheep, sometimes 
cow), and then adds, "or instead of that, almond milk, for that can never 
be lacking".  The goat may run dry, the cow may be uncooperative, but 
there are always almonds in the storeroom...


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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