[Sca-cooks] Magical feast:::was::: Ahhh...

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2003 5:11:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
heleen at ptdprolog.net writes:

> How's the book: _Seven Hundred Years of British Cooking_ (at least I think
> that's the title)... anyway.... is it reliable?
> 

No, not really.  Immense substitutuions and additions of ingredients - but at 
least she usually gives you the original, so you can tell.
My hard-cover copy has the recipe for hedgehogs on the back.  The original 
is, as I recall, ground pork, ginger, sugar, and currents stuffed in a stomach 
of some sort, then stuck with splintered almonds for spines.
By the time she's done with it, she's added eggs and breadcrumbs to bind it 
together into meatballs, as well as additional spices.  I think I counted once, 
and there are at least twice, maybe three times, as many ingredients in her 
redaction as there are in the original recipe.

Brangwayna
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