[Sca-cooks] garlic butter?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Terry Decker:

>Innocence or guilt are for the courtroom, not for the investigation.

My point in raising the analogy was that SCAdians do seem often to
think in those terms; that it is a very short step indeed, and
sometimes an almost nonexistent step, from "we have no evidence to
support or refute the possibility that X existed in period," to "we
can't prove that X didn't exist in period," to "X probably _did_...,"
or even "X _did_...," "...exist in period."

It was in the nature of a reality check.

>  A lack
>of evidence makes a hypothesis questionable.  Opposing evidence usually
>kills it.  However, when you have solid evidence that something has
>occurred, a lack of evidence can tell you something about the scope of the
>occurrence.
>
>While there appears to be no evidence for garlic butter, how were aquapatys
>eaten?

The recipe doesn't say, but it speaks of boiling the garlic with oil,
water, and seasonings. Since modern dishes like bouilliabaise and
various tomato sauces rely to some extent on thickening by
hard-boiling emulsion to mix an oil and a water phase, and the garlic
in aquapatys is not strained [it falleth like the gentle rain from
Heaven upon the place beneath], it probably makes a more pleasurable
finished product to cook it fairly quickly at a hard boil, until
tender but not necessarily spreadable.

I'd guess you put it on your trencher and scoop it or poke it with
your knife, or eat it from a bowl with a spoon.

Adamantius