[Sca-cooks] The can's already open...the worms are EVERYWHERE...

[Stefan li Rous]

El Hermoso Dormido said many things, but here were a few:
> I can say I haven't run
> into any yet, but only if I also admit that I've not been trying for
> very long, either...), but rather that I'm SEEKING OUT additional,
> non-recipe cookery-related information to supplement the more specific
> processes described in the wide variety of recipes that are available.

Perhaps the books reviewed in this file might be of use to you in this:
books-food-msg   (115K)  1/ 8/02    Books about food. Not cookbooks.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BOOKS/books-food-msg.html

> I haven't gone back through other sources to find out whether my substitution
> of beef broth and cow's milk were within the parameters of what would have
> been done then and there yet, though.)

In a message I just edited for my upcoming file on Caldron cooking, the
author gave some fairly strong evidence that they often used beef
broth, mutton broth interchangeably and often mixed them together, at
least in the 16thC caldron done recipes she was talking of.

This file might be of use:
broths-msg        (54K)  4/ 8/02    Broths in period recipes. Substitutions.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/broths-msg.html
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