[Sca-cooks] cinnamon cheese/butter balls
Stefan li Rous
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Sun Jun 5 20:57:04 PDT 2005
Adamantius added to Bear's comment on the cheeseball idea:
> On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Terry Decker wrote:
> > The relationship of "mach" with "darauf" (literally "make upon it")
> > suggests to me that this may be a spice blend to dredge butter or
> > cheese in before serving. Something on the order of a Renaissance
> > cheeseball.
> >
> > Bear
>
> Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. It may be a small point in the end, but
> to me, "mach darauf" is more like "make thereupon" than "make
> thereof". The combination sounds right on a humoral level, too, since
> spices provide the heat needed for digestion and dairy products tend
> to be seen as closing up the chest and stomach, rather like filling
> the fuel tank of the automobile and remembering to put the plug back
> in the gas tank.
Okay, if the question here is whether the spice mixture is used to coat
just the outside or whether it is mixed throughout the cheese or
butter, how do the humoral theories affect that? If you are balancing
the humoral effects of the different items it would seem that mixing
the spices throughout the cheese or butter would be superior to just
coating the outside since the spice would be better dispersed.
Stefan
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