[Sca-cooks] Recipes was Following a recipe... rambling...

[chirhart_1]

Yes  juggling three courses at different temps was horrendous at atlan 12th
night.Beef chicken savory toasted cheese etc.All waiting to hit the breach
for the servers and
400 lords and ladies  . The statements below are so true and if study is not
put into it  things can go wrong very wrong for newbie cooks. chirhart



----- Original Message -----
From: "johnna holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Recipes was Following a recipe... rambling...


> The problem is also one of taking an "old" recipe
> be it medieval or early modern (from the 16th-17th
> centuries) and adapting it not only for use for
> 6-8 servings in a setting of the intimate small feast
> or small potluck but then taking that same dish and
> expanding the quanities up to serve 50, 100 or 200 or even
> 400. This is where we see some very interesting factors
> come into play, regarding quantity cookery, holding
> temperatures in warming ovens and efficient use of all
> the other equipment that modern rental kitchens offer.
> It isn't the adaptation of the dish to serve 6-8 that trips
> us up; it's taking that same dish and attempting to make it
> for 250 within a very limited budget and with time constraints.
> We ought to be allowed to state that not all dishes are suitable
> for quantity preparation. Nor are all dishes the same when we
> start substituting for cost and availability... lamb for mutton;
> beef for veal; etc.
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
>
> AF Murphy wrote:
> > To follow a medieval recipe, from what I have seen, you need to know how
> > to cook. The problem with that, as we have mentioned, is that we then
> > bring our own assumptions to the kitchen. Even now, "cook until done"
> > means many things to many people! How do we decide what they meant by
> > it? Anne
> Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:
> > I was using that as the starting point to explain what it means to
> me to
> > follow a recipe.  Then throwing the idea out that we should discuss
> what
> > following a recipe is.
>

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