SC - gnocchi (v long)

[Lee-Gwen]

Actually, what the cow eats does affect the flavor of the milk, which is why 
you want to keep the cows away from onion grass and garlic.....  I have also 
read of wet-nurses whose charges refused the breast because the mother was 
eating strong-flavored foods.

Of course, feeding a cow rose-petals sounds like a really upper-class 
degenerate sort of thing.  Only think how many roses you'd need to satisfy 
even a small cow!

 (No, I can't remember where I read this, so no references or sources.)

And speaking of strongly flavored milk, there's a lovely recipe  (in Sallets, 
Humbles, & Shrewsbery Cakes)for chicken with cauliflower in sauce where you 
poach the cauliflower in milk flavored with blade mace.  The author says to 
drain the cauliflower and "retain the milk for other uses."  I have not yet 
thought of a use for milk flavored with cauliflower--except
perhaps cauliflower soup


Devra the Baker



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