[Sca-cooks] Adadina

[chirhart_@netzero.net]

Its so true. When I first cooked in the SCA one could not find galingale (28
odd years ago) in fact I could only get it from one place in Denver,a witch
craft shop no less.Now its pretty much everywhere. We used to use ginger in
its place,just not the same.  Chirhart

----- Original Message -----
From: <ranvaig at columbus.rr.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Adadina


> >Hello again!
> >  I get all bent out of
> >shape when people modify recipes to suit the modern day cook and dare to
> >call it authentic.
>
> I agree so much !  I hate it when you get a recipe which has been
> obviously modified because certain ingredients were hard to find..
> Or were hard to find years ago when the book was written, but are in
> every grocery store now.  Give me the original, suggest substitutes
> if you like, but let me decide.
>
> Ranvaig