was P Re: [Sca-cooks] Plentyn Delit, now taught to cook

[vicki shaw]

I agree with you, Aeduin.  I do try to follow the recipe the first time I
cook something, especially if I am in very unfamiliar territory, but then I
adjust it to my taste.  In this case - not having read the original - I
added water because I knew I could not have cooked it otherwise.

Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net

www.omygoddess.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: "aeduin" <aeduin at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: was P Re: [Sca-cooks] Plentyn Delit, now taught to cook


> I was taught by my mother and grandmother to cook by eye and taste.  It
> certainly annoyed the people at Cal Poly's restaurant school when I cooked
> like that instead of blindly following the recipes.
>
> AEduin
>
>
>
> >I'm a traditional 'by eye' cook, and I often find that reading the
> >original recipe (in translation, if necessary) is a lot easier than
> >following someone else's modern style recipe. I wonder if it has to do
> >with the way people's brains work or just the way we are taught to cook?
> >
> >-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> >"But he's a human being and terrible things happen to him so attention
> >must be paid.... Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a
> >person."  -- Arthur Miller, _Death of a Salesman_
>
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