SC - smoker grill as oven
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 25 23:02:22 PDT 2000
At 5:28 PM -0400 9/25/00, Jenne Heise wrote:
>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.
I think there is some evidence to support that assumption. Often,
although I am sure not always, the same recipe shows up in multiple
sources--sometimes in both French and English sources. That suggests
that what we are seeing in the cookbooks are widely used recipes, not
ones ideosyncratic to a particular meal.
>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.
That seems to me much less plausible. When Platina first gives you a
recipe for something and then tells you not to eat it because it is
bad for you, the implication is pretty clear that people did eat it.
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David/Cariadoc
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