SC - Boiled peanuts, was, food bashing

[Philip & Susan Troy]

An interesting note regarding how widespread humoral theory was.  I had
dinner with an Iranian friend last night.  She served a rice and lentil dish
with toasted almonds and raisons.  We were talking about cooking later that
evening, and she mentioned that her grandmother still cooked according to
humoral theory (warm and cold), and even today some people still use it.
She knew enough about the theory to balance the rice dish - rice and lentils
being cold, raisons and almonds warm.

Eleanor

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From: owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
[mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Jenne Heise
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:29 PM
To: 'sca-cooks at ansteorra.org'
Subject: RE: SC - Definitions and Examples: Period, Peri-oid and OOP


> A original, historical recipe is a fact.  When we translate the recipe and
> try to precisely follow the instructions to create the dish, we are
> attempting to recreate a period dish, or more correctly, we are attempting
> to recreate from a stated source which comes from a specified region and a
> specified time.  There is no guarantee that we have accurately prepared
the
> dish, but it is as close to the original as we can make it.  The less of
the
> original we have to work with, the greater our margin of probable error.

One thing I think about from time to time: there is an assumption in this
list that every recipe that appeared in the cookery books accurately
represents a recipe that was cooked multiple times. There is also an
assumption that the advice of period diet doctors is an accurate
representation of period food practice among the majority of the
population who could afford it. My impression from medical history is that
while many people who were concerned about their healths, bored, or
otherwise given to quacking themselves, did follow the advice of
physicians, there were plenty of people who didn't bother and/or disagreed
with the theories of physicians.

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again."




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