SC - Re: SC- feast options was rant

[Bonne of Traquair]

At 3:35 PM -0400 9/27/00, Jenne Heise wrote:
>  > If you are working from a period recipe, it generally specifies the
>>  ingredients (although rarely the quantities), so if you "alter
>>  ingredients as ... needed," one consequence is that you are moving
>>  farther from an accurate reproduction of a period dish than if you
>>  follow the original instructions--which you had available before you
>>  made the feast.
>
>Hm. It seems to me that a number of recipes call for either 'spices' or
>spice mixtures,

Yes. That sort of situation is why I said "generally" instead of "always."
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