[Sca-cooks] Re: a slight rant on logic (was Sauerbraten)

[Kerri Martinsen]

*Sigh*
As the author of the initial post, I suppose I should say something...

I was tossing around menu options with the head cook of the feast and
Sauerbraten was brought up.  I wanted to research the dish and see if it was
a possible to serve something "like" it at feast - maybe not exactly, but a
similar process (I'm betting the modern "add sour cream" part is right out).
I am using the word "Sauerbraten" as shorthand for
"german-style-beef-dish-maranited-in-a-vinegar-spice-goo".  The intent was
to serve a beef dish that is documentable, not make up documentation for
serving the modern dish.

That being said...

I also do clothing and am personally fascinated with "traditional" costumes
(dirndl, lederhosen, native American costume, etc).  It is a pet project of
mine to try to look at a modern incarnation of a "native costume" and find
out how it got to be there.  I kind of thing recipes are a lot the same way.
If we have a traditional dish, I'm betting there is a funny story behind how
it got there (Green Bean Casserole anyone?)

"Reverse" documentation is how I got into cooking.  I had a recipe...wanted
to know how it might have got there... And now I go the other direction -
starting with a period recipe, redact it and make it.

We all learn in different ways and have different things that keep us going.

Vitha


On 1/31/05 2:46 PM, "Chris Stanifer" <jugglethis at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> 
>>> But I have to agree. Research that takes its shape based on the
>>> conclusion you want to draw, instead of taking you in a certain
>>> direction because it's good research and damn the torpedoes, as it
>>> were, is a bad thing.
>> 
>> [Deleted most of  evil-nasty-proto-Laurel Rant.]
>> I don't see anything wrong with asking 'did they have anything like x'
>> in period, as long as you are not starting with the intention of serving
>> X.
>> 
> 
> Okay.  What if the author in question posted the initial query without the
> *intention* of serving
> X, but rather a *desire* to serve X, and wanted to know if there was anything
> in the corpus which
> might lend a hand in that regard?  Or, is that what you just said?  :)
> 
> 
> William de Grandfort
> 
> 
> 
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