[Sca-cooks] The Cook's Orders

[Martin G. Diehl]

[attributions restored]

kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I like it!  I will have to have that printed on the back 
> of a chef's jacket to wear into class!
> Christianna

> Elaine Koogler wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, a description of a Master Cook's "accoutrements" 
> > was somewhat described as follows:
> > 
> > The Cook orders, regulates and is obeyed in his Kitchen; 

[snip]

> > everything that is being done in the Kitchen; he should 
> > have in his hand a large wooden spoon which has a double 
> > function:  one, to test pottages and brouets, and the 
> > other, to chase the children out of the Kitchen to make 
> > them work, striking them if necessary.

I would say ... to chase children and the populace out of ... 

> > Memoires, Olivier de la Marche,
> 
> > Maitre d'Hotel, Capitaine des Gardes to Charles the Bold,
> 
> > Duke of Burgundy, mid-Fifteenth Century
> 
> > Kiri

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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