[Sca-cooks] deep frying

[Nancy Kiel]

Yes, as I learned in my Literary Criticism class (where you start off
stating that word meanings are completely arbitrary, just to put you off
balance right away), "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
Seriously, I was trying to not say never, as in La Varenne never used
potatoes, without benefit of close examination of the receipts.  And hey,
some people LIKE weasels in their pants (or so I've been told).



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson





>From: Daniel Myers <doc at medievalcookery.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] deep frying
>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:57:36 -0500
>
>On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Nancy Kiel wrote:
>
>>Eleanor Fettiplace's Receipt Book lists "To butter potato roots" and
>>has two
>>receipts for candying potatoes.  Hilary Spurling says that by Lady F's
>>time,
>>sweet potatoes were a regular autumn import from Spain; the white
>>potato did
>>not reach European markets until the 1640s.  Looking through La
>>Varenne from
>>1653, I don't see any potato receipts listed in the index, but without
>>looking through all the dishes I can't categorically deny that he
>>doesn't
>>use potatoes.
>
>
>Of course, you also can't categorically deny that he liked to put
>weasels down his pants and was the secret love child of a Welsh
>doorknob maker and Turkish rug merchant.
>
>- Doc
>
>
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