[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 19, Issue 29

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Sorry, newbie here.  Please define redaction.  what is the origin and 
> epistomology of this word?

It's an SCA cooking term of art, which basically means taking the period 
recipe and writing it out in our interpretation of it into modern recipe 
language and format. In the larger world, 'redact' doesn't have this 
special sense, but it is useful shorthand in SCA attempts at period 
recipes. While it's certainly possible to cook from many period recipes 
without 'redacting' (interpreting) them, some require a bit of working 
out or adapting, and it's easier to do quantities and so forth, and have 
other people help you in the kitchen, if you work out a modern-style 
writeup of your interpretation.

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