[Sca-cooks] Shortcuts to period-like foods (was How to Fake It!)

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I know others have tried to offer such lists. I know that "Traveling
> Dysshes",  written by Siobhan Medhbh
> O'Roarke tries to provide some lists of such store-bought foods that
> will work in a period setting. But not everyone has the book or has
> even read it, especially the newcomers or inexperienced cooks.

And frankly, that's a good thing.  While Travelling Dysshes has its heart
in the right place, it's awful. For instance, onion and red wine sops with
almond milk is adapted into a kind of cream of onion soup; the period
original recipe given for cameline doesn't match the adaptation, which is
lifted from Pleyn Delit; and there are other howlers, not to mention the
fact that the dishes _don't_ particularly well for travelling.


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