[Sca-cooks] New compost recipe (long)
Nicolas Steenhout
vavroom at bmee.net
Tue Nov 27 10:23:44 PST 2001
>I thought "compost" and "compote" were the same thing, just that the
>first was the English name for it and the second was the French name.
Ahhh, errr, nope :-)
Compost: An organic material used in gardening, made of all kind of rotten
materials.
Compote: Usualy fruits cooked slowly with a sweetener added. (though it
can be done with onions and such :-) )
Though Vincente did make a good point on the likely origin of both words.
Muiredach mac Loloig
Rokkehealden Shire
aka
Nicolas Steenhout
"You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list