[Sca-cooks] payn perdu et. al.

[Gaylin Walli]

Stefan wrote:

>I'm just a simple lad and those fancy French terms just kinda go
>right over my head...

And that is my fault for making an assumption. It's been rather
intentional. I did a test drive for the class that I will be teaching
by teaching part of it at a meeting of one of my Cantons and I was
quite deliberate about using Payn Perdu as often as I could instead
of using "French Toast" because I didn't want to impose a bias on
the recipe. All but two of the 10 people that took that test drive
class had *no* experience with recipe redaction at all. Telling
them something was a certain thing would have changed how they
perceived the recipe.

>What do you mean not as complete as yours? All I think I've seen
>from you was this listing of Payn Perdu recipes, which I will try to
>add to the French-Toast-msg file.

Well, I'm not quite done yet with the list. I've added 3 more since
I posted it originally. The article that's in there (and please forgive
me for not remembering the author write off) has a good number of
them already. But it stops into the 1600s. I was aiming to include a
larger time frame to show the variety of ways in which french toast
is made today (baked or fried, dipped or poured, sweet or savory)
and how today's methods mirror those across the ages and within
our researched time periods.

>Do you have a more complete article/
>set of notes? If so, can I have it for the Florilegium? I can
>wait until after your class

I believe my article *is* more complete in that it contains more
recipes both from in period and out of period sources. However,
as I mentioned, it is for a class in beginning recipe redaction, not
an article about french toast. I think the list of french toast recipes
would be a great addition. The rest? probably not as it is more a
detailed list of steps and phases and pep talk that amounts to "this
shouldn't be as scary as you're making it; you already have the
skills to do this; go at it, champ!"

My husband asked me what I  thought about the possibility of submitting
it as a Complete Anachronist article, especially in light of the recent
Autocratting 101 issue that was released. But I think I'm still deciding.
I'd be interested to know what other people think about the idea of
a beginning redaction CA.

Iasmin