[Sca-cooks] "Period ingredients" (was: sauce verification)

[david friedman]

Selene Colfox wrote:

>...  A very dear friend who is a Laurel has been browbeating me for 
>a year about how she should be able to use mayonnaise because all 
>its ingredients are period.  Sigh.  Costuming and calligraphy were 
>her majors, but she cooks and really should know better.

Try the following argument on her: Denim cloth is period. Indigo-blue 
dye is period (I'm told that the chemistry of woad is very similar to 
that of indigo and produces a similar effect). Rivets are period. But 
blue jeans?

Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook