[Sca-cooks] "Custard" Crust?
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Fri Apr 15 20:07:32 PDT 2005
Also sprach Sue Clemenger:
>Modern mincemeat pies, which usually contain no meat, would be my
>contributory example....
>Or, for a more current source of this sort of morphing, how about
>some of the really weird fusion cuisines that America seems so prone
>to? I mean, beyond weirdities like cheeseburger pizza, and into
>improbable combinations that actually work.
>--maire, poking her head into the conversation
Okay. I'll see you and raise you... anything with "Alfredo sauce"
(often a vaguely allemande or supreme-ish kind of sauce, although
real fettucine Alfredo is a fettucine dish bearing the name of the
owner of a Roman restaurant which used to serve the noodles tossed
with just a touch of the cooking water, mucho butter --admittedly a
special white butter from a specific region-- and grated Parmigiano,
salt and pepper). Or how about shrimp scampi, which is a dish made
according to a recipe and presentation previously used for bay prawns
(scampi), and its philosophical cousin, shrimp with lobster sauce
containing no lobster...
Adamantius
>
>Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>>Well, it seems fairly possible that at some point, presumably
>>around 1600, the standard filling for crustades, which almost
>>always seems to involve, in part, a liquid thickened with eggs or
>>egg yolks, became the main identifying characteristic of the dish,
>>whereas before, it might be said to be a pastry whose filling
>>usually contained eggs.
>>
>>Let's see if we can think of others. Blankmanger as a rice dish
>>(although technically the main essential was that it be white --
>>unless you added saffron ;-)) that could contain almond milk and/or
>>egg yolks, but which later became an almond or an egg yolk dish
>>which might or might not contain a little rice flour (and we
>>haven't even touched the presence of meat, usually capon, in
>>blankmanger), finally to morph into, essentially, vanilla pudding.
>
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