[Sca-cooks] Following a recipe...

[david friedman]

>Cariadoc wrote:
>>  But the question came up, I believe, in the context of medieval
>>  recipes. You can't follow a medieval recipe slavishly in the sense
>>  you describe because it doesn't say how many minutes to cook anything.
>
>Actually, some of them tell you how many Ave Marias or Pater Nosters,
>which is pretty close :)

Are you sure? I don't remember seeing any of those in al-Baghdadi, or
ibn al Mubarad, or the Andalusian cookbook.
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