[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 23, Issue 35

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach SEBD at aol.com:
>In a message dated 4/12/05 8:53:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:
>
>Yes, that  was mine.  The one problem with an event like Emmaus Fair is that
>one  cannot simultaneously sit with one's display AND go viewing other
>people's  work.  I left my horseradish unattended for a good long 
>while, because 
>there were so many interesting things to admire and interesting 
>people to talk 
>to.   I knew the boiling and soaking would remove heat from the  horseradish,
>and that was evidently the intent of the recipe.   Horseradish grows fairly
>enthusiastically, and how much of it can one use as a  condiment, after all?
>
>---------------
>There certainly was a goodly assortment of people with whom to talk!
>
>Our near ancestors, the Victorians, used to use horseradish as an  ornamental
>border plant on their front walks.
>
>A little  goes a long way. Every now and then I stare at the bottle of
>prepared  horseradish and ask, "Hmmm. How long have I had you?" 
>Somehow, I never
>throw it  out, but I can't quite bring myself to use it, either. If it changes
>color, it's  leaving home.
>
>Elianne

At our house it's an indispensable accompaniment to roast beef, 
particularly eye round, when stirred into sour cream... we go through 
it _relatively_ quickly.

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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