SC - Period Ingredients Master List

[Jeff Gedney]

I would be worried that this might be taken incorrectly...
"if you make a recipe with only these ingredients, it is automatically period" 
We have seen how this is not always true, and that this is a faily common 
mistake of cooks new to period cooking. 

What would be the purpose of compiling such a list?
If you use a period recipe, then using the ingredients in the recipe 
automatically makes your ingredients period....

I do not see the utility of this list, except as a strictly academic excercise.
If however, they could be put into a time line, where the regions and dates 
of earliest usages are listed, then this could be a valuable teaching tool, 
to show the movement and evolution of ingredients. 
I do not believe such a survey of ingredients has been done.

brandu