[Sca-cooks] cinnamon cheese/butter balls

[Johnna Holloway]

And the person who controls the spices is perhaps
a diiferent person than the one that spreads or cuts
the cheeses. Control of spices was something that was
regulated in the larger households.

Johnnae


>
> On Jun 5, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> All true. I just don't know which it is, and there may be some reason  
> of which we're unaware that what seems like a common-sense approach  
> is not the approach taken by people in this position in period. The  
> only info I've got is that phrase which, to me, says to put spices  
> "on the cheese" rather than "in the cheese". Maybe some spices don't  
> react well to the fats and acids in the cheese over time...
>
> Adamantius
>