[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[Avraham haRofeh]

> So it's perfectly reasonable to follow a recipe exactly the first time,
> then, knowing that we're altering it, make some "additions" or
> "subtractions" as we get more familiar with it.

The kicker there is that what we might consider a reasonable addition or 
subtraction might be something that would never occur to a period cook - 
either because the foodstuff wasn't available yet, or the technique, or it 
simply "isn't done that way". You have to THINK like a medieval cook when 
tinkering with a medieval recipe, or you run the risk of losing your 
period-ness - and that's hard to do.

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Reb Avraham haRofeh
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)
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