[Sca-cooks] Re: Life is short; eat dessert first

[Devra at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/22/2004 1:19:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:

> My children seem to understand just fine why they can't eat dessert 
> first. 

It is true, that refined sugar will suppress the appetite.  However, on 
occasions in the past, when there wasn't a lot of meat available, people would 
serve a heavy pudding, with lots of suet and as much sweet as they could manage, 
BEFORE the meat, to cut people's appetites.  (Hence the phrase 'To come in 
pudding time' when the food is just being served.) No, no documentation - just 
something I read lying around the cracking station...
     Devra


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