SC - Lady Seaton's Project

[Philip & Susan Troy]

allilyn at juno.com wrote:
> 
> >>
> My advice to Lady Phillipa Seton is to Proceed With Caution. You are
> probably pursuing the easier solution to your problem, but it could
> backfire, so you ought not to rely too heavily on the method.
> 
> Adamantius,
> 
> There's an easy solution:  write out the period recipe.  State the
> changes made and the reasons they were made: " This recipe can be adapted
> to a vegetarian by setting aside the main ingredients before the meat
> goes in, adapted for a low sodium diet by using no salt and a low sodium
> oleo or sweet butter, adapted for ......"
> 
> This does not account for the recipe borrower who will cook something 5
> years from now without reference to the recipes,

And who will then blithely say they got the recipe from Lady Phillipa.
Murphy's Law. This is exactly what I was talking about.

> but it does protect
> Phillipa and provide the students in her Pennsic class--and I'll be
> one--with the knowledge of the period form and the adaptation, etc.
> Right, Phillipa?

As I said, she ought not to rely too heavily on it, not that she should
never do it. As long as it is properly presented as an exercise in
speculation, she'll be fine, for a while, at least. Overreliance might
well be defined by the above scenario. If Lady Phillipa should lose
control of the spread of the information she's responsible for, I'd say
that would constitute backfiring. Of course there are many ways to make
it work in the short term, as in a Pennsic class where, perhaps, many of
the students will keep in touch with the teacher.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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