[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
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