[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Eeeehhh, yes, all that is true. The trouble is, the alterations we 
> may see as perfectly reasonable and/or necessary aren't necessarily 
> the same alterations a period cook would see as reasonable or 
> necessary. We don't know what they did when they were being creative; 
> we only have the recipes, more or less. 

Well, actually, we do have quite a number of choices to choose from in 
terms of alternatives, especially in De Nola.

The trick is to adapt in the spirit of period cooking, and the way to 
learn to do that is to look at the adaptions that people used in period 
cooking. LOTS of recipes include variations. Know what those variations 
are, and you have a better shot at adapting in a period manner.

This is why I've always wanted to see an Iron Chef competition with 
people competing based on various period texts. "Iron Chef de Nola" vs. 
"Iron Chef Parkinson", for instance. :)

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would 
be librarians." -- Warren Buffet, Washington Post, April 17, 1988