[Sca-cooks] Numbers, pates, and spreads...

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 10:53 PM 1/31/2002, you wrote:
>It seems to me that every pate, meat or otherwise,  I've had has been
>baked. I was going to ask if that was a defining feature, and I guess
>this answers it, if it should be in a crust - though to be honest, very
>few have been in crusts. Is it possible that, in my very non-classical,
>not-French culinary experience, they remembered the idea but jettisoned
>the reason for it?

Of course it's possible.  :-)  Things evolve and change.  Not always for
the best!!!

<shrug>

BTW, I got tot he office and back ok, in the end would have preferred not
to :-)


Gorgeous Muiredach
Rokkehealden Shire
Middle Kingdom
aka
Nicolas Steenhout
"You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry