[Sca-cooks] spice mixes

[Philippa Alderton]

--- Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had looked up curry in "Soup for the Qan" index
> and
> it isn't there.  Can you tell me what page this is
> on?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Huette

Ah, oops ;-) Either you misunderstood me, or more
likely, I didn't make myself clear. I had said:

> > but the Indian cooks themselves
> never
> > packaged things quite that way. Their take on the
> > situation has always been to mix the spice blends
> in
> > the foods as they were cooking them, so that while
> > they might, for example, have both cardamom and
> > cumin,
> > in lamb, chicken, or vegetable dishes, the
> > proportions
> > would differ according not only to whichever of
> > these
> > they were cooking, but whatever the other
> > ingredients
> > might be, just as any other good cook might do.
> >
> > Also, if you can get your hands on Paul Buell's
> > "Soup
> > for the Qan", he was telling me about several of
> the
> > dishes that he had tried, which although they were
> > essentially one-pot meals, done in the Mongol
> style
> > as
> > they were adopted by the Chinese, might also
> provide
> > a
> > starting point for curried dishes as they are
> known
> > today. He told me that several are quite hot, even
> > without the use of our New World hot peppers.

What I meant, was that from what Paul had told me
about the spicings used in the "Soup" dishes, they
might strongly resemble the same spicings used in
modern-but-real-Indian curry dishes- in fact, that was
the mental note I made when Paul emailed me a couple
of his translations of the recipes. Unfortunately, I
still don't have my hard drive here, so I don't have
access to his emails, and the ingredient combinations
which made me make that mental note.

If you look at some of the one pot meals, there should
be a few which use mutton/lamb as a principle
ingredient, and the one I'm thinking of would be among
those.

BTW, if you have Paul's addy, please send it to me,
since I'm trying to rebuild my address book, and it
may be a few weeks before I can get the info off the
old hard drive.


Phlip

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