[Sca-cooks] Re: Seeking Kid friendly period recipes

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/2004 1:42:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:

<<This sounds a little like losyns, but not much. Any one know what the 
original is?

>1 pound of dried egg noodles
>1 tablespoon of oil
>Large pinch of salt
>2 cups of grated cheddar cheese
>1 stick of butter>>

Actually, with the exception of adding the salt and the oil to the boiling 
process, it's very close to Macrows.  That particular recipe tells you how to 
make the dough, has you boil it (in broth, I believe), and then layer it with 
cheese and butter.  It never tells you to bake it to melt it all together, so I 
find that particular step in the instructions (putting it into an oven to bake 
briefly *if you want to*) rather telling.  It sounds like someone assumed 
that, because they are cooking pasta, one MUST, of course, use salt and oil in 
the water as is the normal process today, but otherwise followed a period recipe 
rather closely.
I've seen a similar practice happen (in a mundanely available cookbook) with 
hedgehogs (yrchouns) made as meatballs - the original calls for only meat and 
spices, while the redaction calls for the addition of egg and breadcrumbs to 
bind them together, which is of course how meatballs and meatloaves are made 
today.

Brangwayna